swing the lead

He then knocked in both shots to swing the lead back to his team.

There was a quiet plop as he swung the lead.

That said there are those that swing the lead on sick leave.

I really want to work, and I hate being treated as someone who is swinging the lead.

Also, a clean face and no swinging the lead or nicking wallets.

'We want to stop in future anyone swinging the lead,' he stressed.

Why are people so ready to believe sick and disabled people are swinging the lead?

Still, I'm not swinging the lead, my GP sent me here.

"I'm swinging the lead a bit, my boy.

"He doesn't know where he is either, he's had a man in the bow swinging the lead this last two miles, just like you.

They were just swinging the lead, the creatures.'

Talk about swinging the lead.

It only happens to "others", strangers who are tabloid caricatures who are "swinging the lead".

Swinging the Lead (1934)

Ginsel, go for'ard - you'll swing the lead.

Ginsel was leaning over the side of the tiny, roped starboard platform, swinging the lead, calling out the fathoms.

Nicholas had been droll when describing that, but she could not now remember which was correct, 'swinging the lead' or 'heaving the lead'.

Yabu watched Vinck swinging the lead for a moment, then strolled back to Blackthorne.

I have ample grounds to 'swing the lead' myself - medicalise my problems and seek my 'entitlement'.

You generally come up trumps if you can swing the lead in a Jackie Collins or a Julie Burchill, all baby oil, meat and two veg.

'But,' said Jim, 'but. . . but. . .' The Professor says that sir is swinging the lead,' Gammon continued.

JC Intal missed two free throws, and Allan Evangelista hit a jumper to swing the lead back to UST.

Jayge saw a large depression-a dragon-length wide and at least five hands in depth, enough to break an axle-and signaled for his father to swing the lead wagon to the left.

He steadied himself on the protruding cathead, just to starboard of the bowsprit, and swung the lead in a humming circle, dropping it forty yards ahead of the stationary ship.

Even so, you would be well advised not to show too much blooming health: you must keep to your bed, and you may exaggerate your weakness - you may swing the lead a trifle.