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"Swing the lead" nghĩa là gì?
31 Jan, 2015
Trốn việc đi chơi. Photo courtesy GettysGirl4260.
'To swing the lead' nghĩa là giả vờ đau ốm để trốn việc (to pretend to be ill so that you do not have to work).
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..."I have talked to young couples and they have been brought up to be willing and proud to go to work. "It's a bad example for them to hear or see anyone arguing that if you 'swing the lead' you will get your rent paid, you will get your mortgage (vay nợ mua nhà) paid in part and you can lie in bed all day."
In fact a patient can request a "fit note" before the usual 7 days and indeed a GP or hospital can charge for this. Sounds more like PCH are expecting some employees to throw a sickie and are putting out a warning that it MAY result in deduction of pay - not that it will. I guess if they didnt have employees who are known to swing the lead, this sort of warning not be necessary.
Paxman, 63, said National Service taught his father’s generation the importance of duty, while his own contemporaries “had it pretty easy” and were never “tested”. My dad, who had been conscripted into the Army, later insisted that it taught him nothing except how to “swing the lead” – or skive.
There have always been quitters and those that will "swing the lead" at every opportunity. But I do not believe that they are the majority. As for what the average Canadian is capable of, when it comes to math, geometry (hình học) or whatever. Do not get a lack of training mixed up with a lack of intelligence. Properly trained in the skills required to do a task, I think most "average Canadians" could handle most tasks demanded of them. I do believe that trigonometry (lượng giác học) and geometry is certainly not outside the reach of the "average Canadian" .
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swinger = a person, esp. one of a married couple, who exchanges partners with another for sexual activities.