play hooky
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Don’t tell your boss, but if there was ever a day to play hooky, create a DIY three-day weekend and soak up the last rays of summer, this Monday could be it.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2022
The Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce is asking business owners to let their employees "play hooky" from work and step in as substitute teachers.
From Fox News • Feb. 7, 2022
For many contemporary writers of fiction, The Novel looms balefully, a rigid school from which we should all be desperate to play hooky.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016
“Fairly uncomfortable” is a massive understatement, given that your family is trying to convince you that your progressive, fatal illness is something you invented as an excuse to play hooky from work.
From Slate • Dec. 21, 2015
Kids got sick, like Dad said, or they decided to play hooky.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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