Abscess Phrases

Phrases

• Blood blister (Cockney rhyming slang for sister)
• Boil with rage
• Bring to the boil
• Go and boil your head
• Go boil your head
• Go off the boil
• It makes my blood boil
• Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend (Prince Charles quotation)
• Rub salt in the wound
• Skin and blister (Cockney rhyming slang for sister)
• The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Sherlock Holmes story)