Acupuncture Phrases

Phrases

• A world of pain
• Ancient Chinese secret (Calgon advertising slogan)
• As many chins as a Chinese phone book
• Bees therapy
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Chinese burn
• Chinese fire drill
• Chinese homer
• Chinese whispers
• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
• Doubled up in pain
• Drown the pain
• Feeling no pain
• Get the needle
• Give someone the mushroom treatment
• Home remedy
• It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
• Like looking for a needle in a haystack
• Medical emergency
• Medical imagery
• Medical tourism
• No pain, no gain
• On pain of death
• Pain barrier
• Pain in the arse
• Pain in the bum
• Pain in the butt
• Pain in the neck
• Pecker checker (military slang term for medical personnel)
• Physical therapy
• Primal Scream (a psychological treatment for neurosis)
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Primal therapist (psychotherapist who uses Primal Scream method of treatment)
• Red carpet treatment
• Retail therapy
• The Prince of Pain (Nickname of comedian Richard Lewis)
• The royal treatment
• The silent treatment
• Through the eye of a needle