RE: Australianisms & Regional Slang
11-19-2015, 09:45 AM
Entry 4: Chuck a Sickie
To call in sick to work.
This one, strangely enough, gets thrown around a lot on Melbourne Cup day. It's a summer day in November where people race racehorses on a racetrack for racehorses, and we get inordinately obsessed with who wins and who poisoned whose horse and no one, absolutely no one, does any actual work on the day, opting instead to participate in the most Australian activity possible (aside from animal cruelty): getting fucking hammered.
Example: "You gonna chuck a sickie for the Melbourne Cup, love? Work won't need us that much!"
To call in sick to work.
This one, strangely enough, gets thrown around a lot on Melbourne Cup day. It's a summer day in November where people race racehorses on a racetrack for racehorses, and we get inordinately obsessed with who wins and who poisoned whose horse and no one, absolutely no one, does any actual work on the day, opting instead to participate in the most Australian activity possible (aside from animal cruelty): getting fucking hammered.
Example: "You gonna chuck a sickie for the Melbourne Cup, love? Work won't need us that much!"
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