And this expression was born at the beginning of the 20th century in the military world. A sick person, as I was saying, often has a pale complexion. So, we used the expression to talk about a soldier who was sick and who could not work. We would say: "he is reporting pale". That means he is sick, he is telling us that he is sick. And the expression then became widespread among the entire population.
And today, when we say that someone is calling in sick, it means that someone is sick, they are not able to go to work, they cannot go anywhere, they cannot do anything. Someone who calls in sick, they are sick, they cannot go to work, they cannot go out, they cannot do anything, they must stay at home to rest.
The first example would be someone who says: "I didn't have time to prepare for this morning's meeting. I think I'm going to call in sick." This person is cheating a little, a lot even, he's not being very serious, because he says: "Well, I couldn't prepare for the meeting, so I'm going to say I'm sick. I'm going to call the boss, I'm going to tell him I'm sick, I can't come to the meeting, I'm going to go home." So by telling him "I'm calling in sick," it means I'm sick, I can't work.
Another example: "He's calling in sick again? It's not possible. He's still sick. Do you know what's wrong with him?" Again, here, this is a person who is not happy to hear that someone is saudi arabia whatsapp number data calling in sick. This means that this person is indicating that they are sick and they won't be able to work or go anywhere, they are calling in sick.
Last example to reinforce your understanding: "She had a little too much to drink last night. I think that's why she called in sick." So here, we're indicating that a person has had a little too much to drink, so we're implying that they've had too much alcohol, that they've partied too much and so they're sick. They can't go to work, they stay home. They call in sick, they're sick, they stay home, they can't go to work.
What I suggest you do now to really reinforce your learning of this expression, you know that one of the big rules of Authentic French is to repeat, it is important to repeat several times, to hear the same thing many times, so we have prepared a little pronunciation exercise for you where we are going to change the pronoun. You will see, I am going to change the pronoun of this expression "se faire porter pâle". We are going to conjugate it in the present tense, quite simply.
And you don't focus on that, you just repeat. And the magic of natural learning is that by repeating out loud, well your brain will learn the vocabulary, you will know this expression better and also the conjugation, because we change both the personal pronoun and the... 'well, we completely conjugate this pronominal verb. So here we go. I'm going to start making you repeat.