Idiom
play the wag
Meaning
To play truant (be absent from school without permission).
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He decided to play the wag and missed his afternoon class.”
“The teacher noticed two students were missing and suspected they had gone to play the wag.”
“Rather than face the difficult examination, the anxious student chose to play the wag, wandering the city streets until the final bell rang.”
Examples
simple
“He decided to play the wag and missed his afternoon class.”
contextual
“The teacher noticed two students were missing and suspected they had gone to play the wag.”
complex
“Rather than face the difficult examination, the anxious student chose to play the wag, wandering the city streets until the final bell rang.”
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