play hooky
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Asked how it felt to suddenly become a Drifter, Mr. Thomas told Mr. Goldberg: “As a kid, I used to play hooky to see the Drifters at the Apollo. It felt good!”
From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2023
"He would play hooky… and tan aggressively. He looked like a Versace bag."
From Fox News • Sep. 28, 2021
Raketty started reading SGN as a high schooler, when she’d play hooky to hang out with her boyfriend on Capitol Hill.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 26, 2021
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
“But a good day to play hooky, I suppose. Hey, look, that’s what I’m doing.”
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
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