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call in sick
Idioms and Phrases
Telephone one's employer or school that one is ill and cannot come to work or attend. For example, Ben called in sick and told his boss he would miss the meeting . [Mid-1900s]Example Sentences
As she scrambled to find a hotel room, De Salvo forgot to call in sick from her job as a court interpreter.
“We appeal to our operators to reconsider the impact their plan to call in sick will have on some of the most vulnerable people in the county.â€
Faced with a job she doesn’t know how to do, for instance, Lauren quickly learns she can call in sick a lot because she knows she’ll be bailing on her husband/acquiring a new life soon.
If they call in sick, miss a shift or cannot pay the fees, they rack up “back rent†— money they owe to the club.
The wave of illness has been noticeable in causing more workers to call in sick.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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