work hot

To be sick and still come to work. This is usually done to avoid having to unnessicarily use up a sick day.

Doing this tends to share your illness with the entire office.

From the biohazard term hot meaning an infectious agent or area, ie a hot agent or a hot zone.

Wife: You have the flu, honey. The proposal can wait.
Husband: Nah, I'm gonna work hot. Don't want to waste my sick days.

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