Is there a verb phrase for not working on a Monday or a Friday so as to have a four-day weekend?

I don't mean having a long weekend due to a holiday falling on a Friday or a Monday. I mean when the holiday falls on a Tuesday or a Thursday (Thanksgiving in the US for instance) I'm looking for a verb phrase for "not working on what would be a normal working day, so as to have a four-day weekend, and a noun for that specific day. It may be that all employees are given that benefit or that some of them simply decide to make that Monday or Friday a non-working day on their own.

• The French say "faire le pont" (to make a bridge)
• In some Spanish speaking countries it's "hacer un día puente", "San Lunes", or "San Viernes" (Saint Monday, Saint Friday)
• In Chile some people say "tomarse el sandwich" (to make a sandwich)
• Brazilians say "enforcar a sexta-feira or segunda-feira" (a hanged Friday or a hanged Monday.)
• In Germany, the word "Brückentag" is used.

I'm not looking for "extended weekend", "Bank Holiday weekend" or "long weekend". I'm looking for a noun phrase for the Monday or Friday sandwiched between the weekend and the Tuesday or Thursday (e.g. "Brückentag" in German), and a verb phrase for not working on those days ("faire le pont" in French, or "enforcar a segunda-feira" in Portuguese.

Solution 1:

To convey the idea of a "bridge" in English you world usually refer to a "four/five-day weekend" accordiny to how many day are involved in the holiday. It is an extension of the common concept of long weekend.

• A long weekend is a weekend that is at least three days long (so, a three-day weekend), due to a holiday falling on either the Friday or Monday.

• Most countries also feature many four-day weekends, in which two days adjoining the weekend are holidays. (Examples can include Easter Monday / Good Friday, and Christmas Day / Boxing Day.)

• Further, in many nations, when a lone holiday occurs on a Tuesday or a Thursday, the gap between that day and the weekend may also be designated as a holiday, or set to be a movable or floating holiday, or indeed work/school may be avoided by consensus unofficially. This is typically referred to by a phrase involving "bridge" in most languages.

• A special situation exists in France in some elementary schools, where there is no school on Wednesday: thus, any four-day weekend is essentially a "five-day weekend" for the kids and their teachers. Any four-day bridge, for example: Thursday (Holiday) and Friday (bridge day) for Ascension, is essentially a "five-day weekend" to some teachers.

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