Sentences with phrase «to play hooky»

At the Jelly Belly Factory, where I toured on my 26th birthday while playing hooky from work, we wore paper hats.

Our weather has been glorious lately, so it was nice to enjoy the sunshine outside and feel like we were playing hooky on Monday!

And quite frankly, I'm already fantasizing about playing hooky for a few local day trips on my own!

The days playing hooky at the batting cage stopped.Corky moved out of Ethel's house.

Sloan, meanwhile, takes his daughter out for a day playing hooky from school, leaves her in a hotel room, and drops some papers for his brother (Chris Cooper) to take guardianship of her.

A cool teen plays hooky in Chicago with his girlfriend, his buddy and the classic Ferrari of his buddy's father.

A popular misconception states that the Japanese government has forbidden squarenix from selling Dragon Quest titles on weekdays to prevent children playing hooky.

Nearly a quarter of the city's students played hooky yesterday on the first day of school, thanks to a one - day school week wedged between two holidays.

So don't play hooky when it comes to working those quads, and don't approach them halfheartedly.

Most everyone has played hooky by calling in sick to work at one time or another, but those who make a habit of it are costing their employers a lot of money over the long run.

«A» winds up playing hooky with Rhiannon for the day and taking her to the aquarium and beach.

Just a quick note to acknowledge that I am not playing hooky.

Disrupting the classroom, using profanity, misbehaving on the bus, getting into a fight, or playing hooky once meant a trip to the principal's office.

On this day of playing hooky, he catches his mother with another man, an incident neither speaks of.

Whether you have a bona fide three - day weekend or you're just playing hooky (we promise not to tell), here's how to make the most of your free time.

In fact, the number of employees playing hooky is at its highest since 2005, when it hit 43...

Try a few of these ideas for attendance notes and they'll never play hooky again.

The governor was in a jokey sort of mood — a far cry from his angry rhetoric in Buffalo yesterday when he went after state worker unions and legislators who might be contemplating playing hooky for the Nov. 29 lame duck session.

Frequently played hooky while students lacked basics such as textbooks, and watched movies instead of getting gym and art.

The Minnesota Twins baseball organization discovered last month that for some students a home baseball game doesn't compete, as an extracurricular treat, with just plain playing hooky.

Spencer Campbell spends much of his days walking the halls of Elk Ridge Middle School, checking breezeways for kids playing hooky, redirecting foot traffic between classes and checking on substitute teachers.

Here's a scene from early in the novel, when Swan plays hooky from a funeral with her Uncle Toy:

A title to watch is a cozy English novel about the Queen playing hooky.

By planning ahead and looking into an FIA, Ferris — at only 48 years old — can take steps to secure a retirement that is every bit as exciting and fun as his time playing hooky that epic day on Michigan Ave.

But even without an El Niño event, it's conceivable that 2015 could top 2014, given that 2014 reached its spot when El Niño played hooky, Schmidt noted during the briefing.

But I'm glad Dude played hooky if he was too altered to perform on the job.

After making its all - time CES debut earlier this month, Xiaomi will surprisingly play hooky at the 2017 Mobile World Congress in late February.

Yesterday was Hubby's birthday and I talked him into playing hooky.

Our weather has been glorious lately, so it was nice to enjoy the sunshine outside and feel like we were playing hooky on Monday!

Since losing re-election last month, Rep. John Sweeney has played hooky in Congress, skipping votes, dodging reporters and avoiding his new make - shift office in a basement cubicle set up for lame ducks.

A popular misconception states that the Japanese government has forbidden squarenix from selling Dragon Quest titles on weekdays to prevent children playing hooky.

Though, really, a Monday off is hardly different from the normal Saturday + Sunday off, I feel somehow like I'm playing hooky by missing a typically blech (ick, Mondays) day.

He feigns illness, and also gets his girlfriend (Sara, Timecop) and best friend (Ruck, Speed) to play hooky with him.

This unholy trio revel in being bad moms: playing hooky at the movies, drinking, flirting, partying, and bringing store - bought donut holes to the sugar and gluten - free bake sale.

While you may not be able to jet away to an exotic locale, you can play hooky from work and have a mental vacation.

We all know the frustrations of the Monday morning routine: trying to squeeze in a few more seconds of sleep in bed, getting dressed, slogging through your commute, and sometimes wishing you could play let loose and play hooky for the entire day.

Then imagine that the same five students play hooky 15 days in a row.

«Emailing your plans to play hooky the next day isn't the smartest of moves,» notes Patrick Colvin, Strategic HR Business Partner for USA Today.

Am playing hooky from my dissertation to get this project off the ground.

Summer is also major «playing hooky» time.

Enjoy some more Corn Recipes in this mailer, and for your sweet tooth, a statuesque Tollhouse Cookie Bundt Cake to slice in hunks and tote with you, should you play hooky any time soon.

In a tiny village on the Gulf of Salerno one of the kings of Italy loved to play hooky from his princely duties to gorge himself on the wares of the Pizzeria di Ponte di Campania, where the pizzas were divided north to south and east to west and the four quarters filled with four different sauces.

By the time Allen was in high school, he had become so smitten with the game that his principal had no alternative but to grant him permission to play hooky on the days that the Reds were at home.

«Yes, I played hooky to play baseball, and somehow I survived it to become mayor,» he said.

Playing hooky on the perfect beach day.

If you feel like you're playing hooky, ask yourself: Whose life is it, anyway?