| 单词 | swing the lead |
| 释义 | ● ˌswing the ˈlead (old-fashioned , BrE , informal ) (usually used in the progressive tenses 通常用于进行时) to pretend to be ill /sick when in fact you are not , especially to avoid work 装病偷懒◆ I don't think there's anything wrong with her —she's just swinging the lead . 我认为她没有什么病，只不过是在装病偷懒而已。ORIGINThe lead was a weight at the bottom of a line that sailors used to measure how deep water was when the ship was near land . 'Swinging the lead' was thought to be an easy task , and came to mean avoiding hard work . * lead 是船靠近陆地时水手测量水深用的水铊。swinging the lead 被认为是件轻松的工作，逐渐变成 “逃避干重活” 的意思。See also lead |
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