"swing the lead" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swings the lead",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swinging the lead",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swung the lead",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swung the lead",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "swing<,,swung> the lead"
      },
      "expansion": "swing the lead (third-person singular simple present swings the lead, present participle swinging the lead, simple past and past participle swung the lead)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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        },
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 93:",
          "text": "Though he was by no means inclined to help carry a gas-cylinder on a pole, while watching the working party fall in on the road that night, Bourne felt rather out of it; he felt as though he were swinging the lead.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 129:",
          "text": "I said, ‘Well, how d'you like having to do some work for a change, instead of swinging the lead at Fort Hommet?’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To avoid work, especially by pretending to be ill; to shirk, to malinger."
      ],
      "id": "en-swing_the_lead-en-verb-obQokVo3",
      "links": [
        [
          "pretend",
          "pretend"
        ],
        [
          "ill",
          "ill"
        ],
        [
          "shirk",
          "shirk"
        ],
        [
          "malinger",
          "malinger"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To avoid work, especially by pretending to be ill; to shirk, to malinger."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "dodge the column"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "swing the lead"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swings the lead",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swinging the lead",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swung the lead",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swung the lead",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "swing<,,swung> the lead"
      },
      "expansion": "swing the lead (third-person singular simple present swings the lead, present participle swinging the lead, simple past and past participle swung the lead)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "dodge the column"
    }
  ],
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        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English predicates",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 93:",
          "text": "Though he was by no means inclined to help carry a gas-cylinder on a pole, while watching the working party fall in on the road that night, Bourne felt rather out of it; he felt as though he were swinging the lead.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 129:",
          "text": "I said, ‘Well, how d'you like having to do some work for a change, instead of swinging the lead at Fort Hommet?’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To avoid work, especially by pretending to be ill; to shirk, to malinger."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pretend",
          "pretend"
        ],
        [
          "ill",
          "ill"
        ],
        [
          "shirk",
          "shirk"
        ],
        [
          "malinger",
          "malinger"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To avoid work, especially by pretending to be ill; to shirk, to malinger."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "swing the lead"
}