Meanings (ES + gloss)
hacerse el enfermo
To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! / Smoothed by long fingers, / Asleep … tired … or it malingers, / Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves.
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