An Irish expression meaning to skip school or play truant — basically pulling a disappearing act on your teachers.
An Irish expression meaning to skip school or play truant — basically pulling a disappearing act on your teachers. If you're going on the mitch, you're not sick, you're just not showing up. Common in Irish schoolyard culture for generations, it captures that rebellious energy of ditching class to hang out somewhere more fun. Still widely understood in Ireland today, especially among older generations who used it growing up.
Half the class decided to go on the mitch on the last Friday before summer break.
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(Ireland, Wales, ambitransitive) To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.
(Ireland , UK, _, regional) Playing truant.
Mitching is the art of quietly dodging something you're supposed to be doing — most commonly skipping school without permission. Rooted in Irish and British regional dialect, it describes that sneaky act of playing truant, slipping away from class and hoping nobody notices. Beyond truancy, it can also mean skulking around or pretending to be worse off than you are. The word has a satisfyingly mischievous ring to it, and it's still alive in Irish English today, especially among younger speakers.
(intransitive, dialectal) To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
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(Ireland, idiom) to skip school; to play truant.
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