pull a sickie

If you work with a lot of City fans, tomorrow may be a good time to pull a sickie.

Well, there is National Sick Day, the day of the year when British workers are most likely to pull a sickie.

In the lull between Christmas and the New Year most of the normal journo staff are so hungover that they've pulled a sickie.

The sharp-memoried and rather sad among you will recall that yesterday I was tempted to pull a sickie to avoid going out to dinner with the missus and play Portal 2.

The paramedic admitted later that when they had received the call out he had told his colleague "that it would probably be someone trying to pull a sickie [ie feigning illness] to get out of appearing in court in the morning."