2006-09-21 11:32:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's a term used in the employment world - skiving off, taking too much time off sick, disappearing into the stationery cupboard etc.
2006-09-21 11:35:44 · answer #1 · answered by gerbiltamer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Swinging the lead - A person pretending to work (or claiming to be ill) when he is not. Pre-modern days, seamen would check the depth of water by dropping a lead weight, attached to a thin marked rope, to the bottom of a waterway. Some lazy sailors would take as long as possible about it. They would swing the lead to and fro several times instead of just dropping it straight into the water."
2006-09-21 11:35:00 · answer #2 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Swinging the lead - A person pretending to work (or claiming to be ill) when he is not.
Pre-modern days, seamen would check the depth of water by dropping
a lead weight, attached to a thin marked rope, to the bottom of a
waterway. Some lazy sailors would take as long as possible about it.
They would swing the lead to and fro several times instead of just
dropping it straight into the water.
2006-09-21 11:35:40 · answer #3 · answered by itsaherb 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Getting paid for doing nowt.
Itsaherb (above) gives the right info
2006-09-21 12:46:20 · answer #4 · answered by Dave B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Telling Lies, bending the truth
2006-09-21 11:34:07 · answer #5 · answered by timone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was back in old west 6 shooter a lot fight gun
fight and bullet was lead
2006-09-21 12:14:44 · answer #6 · answered by rnd1938 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A mixture of masturbation and gyration.
2006-09-21 11:34:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
playing golf
2006-09-21 11:36:08 · answer #8 · answered by poison 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fishing? Busting someone in their head? I don't know.
2006-09-21 11:34:19 · answer #9 · answered by Sean 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋