play hooky
Example Sentences
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The Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce is asking business owners to let their employees "play hooky" from work and step in as substitute teachers.
From Fox News ● Feb. 7, 2022
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
“Fairly uncomfortable” is a massive understatement, given that your family is trying to convince you that your progressive, fatal illness is something you invented as an excuse to play hooky from work.
From Slate ● Dec. 21, 2015
The street had to be roped off, the policemen had to keep the crowds back and children had to play hooky from school when there was a piano moving.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
