sickie

Some just see stress as a simple way to throw a sickie.

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

"That's everyone, including business people going to a meeting with a competitor when they've called a sickie.

"They don't talk down to you like you're a sickie.

A fine school to teach in during the Sickie Seventies.

His journals, the prosecutors say, show he was concerned about giving society ammunition "to make me out to be a sickie."

No hangover in the morning; no excuse for a sickie.'

She was not a loser, like Nina, or a sickie, like Amelia.

I'm already planning a sickie.

Paul Taylor in Time Out magazine called it "a routinely mindless sickie."

Ordinarily, one would advise an eve-of-trial cardiac sickie.

I just wanted you to know,' she said, 'I'm not a prude and I'm not a sickie.

"Zennor is a sickie and will get the proper treatment in a hospital that specializes in people with problems like his.

"At any rate this guy is a 'sickie.'

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

The Sickie (2006)

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

How's the sickie, heh?

Their guitarist renamed himself "Sickie Wifebeater", and the group often appeared in public wearing black executioner hoods.

If I lived somewhere with decent medics maybe I wouldn't be such a rotten sickie bréochaid.

"Is goin' on strike jus' like 'avin' a sickie?"

One in four admitted to pulling a "sickie" to escape the daily grind of working life with Mondays proving the most popular day to call in sick.

When I was an adolescent sickie in the nut wards of the hospital at the Food Mines, the doctors told me I would eventually get well.

Different versions of "The Afterlight", "Luckiness", and "Sickie Boy" had appeared on previous releases.

Sickie Wifebeater's 4F Club (vocals)