play hooky

Supposedly playing hooky from filming a movie, he visits the walrus diorama at the Natural History Museum.

He works hard to please but likes his breaks and sometimes plays hooky.

Sunday’s show wasn’t the first time the Boss personally signed off on his fans playing hooky.

They worked or played hooky, they hid or revealed their feelings, they participated or declined to participate in the war to come.

Forty-eight hours later, we were playing hooky from work in favor of boozy Avra lunch.