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play hooky



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Idioms and Phrases

Be absent from school or some other obligation without permission, as in It was such a beautiful day that Herb played hooky from work . In this term, the noun hooky may have come from the phrase hook it , meaning “escape.†[Mid-1800s]
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Supposedly playing hooky from filming a movie, he visits the walrus diorama at the Natural History Museum.

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He works hard to please but likes his breaks and sometimes plays hooky.

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Sunday’s show wasn’t the first time the Boss personally signed off on his fans playing hooky.

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They worked or played hooky, they hid or revealed their feelings, they participated or declined to participate in the war to come.

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Forty-eight hours later, we were playing hooky from work in favor of boozy Avra lunch.

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