Double-take, # 72

The information in the two clauses here is confusingly contradictory:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Union boss who wouldn’t pull a sickie…’

Although the phrase ‘pull a sickie’ is a well-established British colloquialism, defined (with a helpful list of alternatives) by BBC Learning English as ‘to pretend to be ill so you can take time off work’, whoever wrote the headline seems to think it refers to legitimate sick leave.

pull a sickie for taking sick leave