"on the club" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the term benefit club.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "text": "Then he crept up the stone stairs behind the drapery shop at the Co-op., and peeped in the reading-room. Usually one or two men were there, either old, useless fellows, or colliers \"on the club\".",
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      "glosses": [
        "Temporarily away from work, usually due to sickness, supported by sickness benefit."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, slang) Temporarily away from work, usually due to sickness, supported by sickness benefit."
      ],
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        "not-comparable",
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  "word": "on the club"
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{
  "etymology_text": "From the term benefit club.",
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      "expansion": "on the club (not comparable)",
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "English slang",
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        "English uncomparable adjectives",
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          "ref": "1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 5”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Then he crept up the stone stairs behind the drapery shop at the Co-op., and peeped in the reading-room. Usually one or two men were there, either old, useless fellows, or colliers \"on the club\".",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Temporarily away from work, usually due to sickness, supported by sickness benefit."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, slang) Temporarily away from work, usually due to sickness, supported by sickness benefit."
      ],
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        "UK",
        "not-comparable",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "on the club"
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