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sick note
noun
A note from a doctor certifying the patient is ill, and therefore unable to go to work, school etc.
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Stephen Crabb will "tackle the sick note culture", to "help people".
They have the sick note written before the horse has run".
I'd never seen that one on a fighter's sick note before.
I leave the surgery with a prescription, a sick note, and a sense of complete helplessness.
This got me thinking about Darren Anderton, casually labelled "sick note".
"Quite a few of them might need a sick note," Montgomerie joked.
Mike Leigh London Why did Daniel Blake not ask his doctor for a sick note (Letters, 27 October)?
(Who wipes up on the day the cleaning lady calls in sick?) Note the tray of nail polish and unguents on a sleekly calculated surface.
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