Sickie

SIK-ee · noun

A day off sick when you're not sick. Chucking a sickie is a fundamental right of all Aussies.

Person 1"Swell's pumping tomorrow."

Person 2"Reckon I'll chuck a sickie then."

"Tez chucked a sickie and turned up on the news at the cricket."

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Chuck a sickie
Take a day off work pretending to be sick.
Hard yakka
Hard physical work.
Ambo
Paramedic, or the ambulance they turned up in.
Tradie's laptop
The pokies. Poker machines at the pub or club.
Earn a crust
Make a living. "What do you do to earn a crust?" means what is your job?
Not here to fuck spiders
I'm here to get on with it, not muck around.

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