单词 | to be off sick |
释义 | > as lemmasto be off sick e. to be off sick: to be absent from work, school, etc., owing to illness. ΚΠ 1912 A. B. Paine Mark Twain II. cix Every boy has played off sick to escape school.] 1917 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 25 675 She suffered from severe headaches and had been off sick ten days. 1964 G. L. Cohen What's Wrong with Hospitals? i. 22 Working people still talk about ‘going on the Panel’ when they're off sick, and don't see why they should use another term. 1985 Guardian (Nexis) 23 Oct. One man is still off sick, and two others are suspected of having had the disease. 2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 90 He's the reason I am never off sick, go to sleep every night running tomorrow's prep lists and menus through my mind. < as lemmas |
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