Hospital Phrases

Phrases

• Accident prone
• Accident waiting to happen
• All-American Girl (Nickname of boxer Vonda Ward)
• An accident waiting to happen
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away
• As sick as a dog
• As sick as a parrot
• Bed bath
• Bed blocking
• Crash and burn
• Crash and dash
• Crash cart
• Crash course
• Crash for cash
• Crash out
• Crash pad
• Crash programme
• Day surgery (minor surgery that does not require the patient to stay in hospital overnight)
• Dead on arrival
• Disease has no greater enemy (Glaxo/Wellcome advertising slogan)
• Disease marketing
• Do you like hospital food?
• Doctor Fad (Nickname of entrepreneur Ken Okuda)
• Doctor Feelgood
• Doctor Foster went to Gloucester (line from nursery rhyme)
• Doctor In The House (Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie)
• Doctor Johnny Fever (Nickname of disc jockey Johnny Caravella)
• Doctor Livingstone I presume?
• Doctor Robert (Beatles song)
• Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Peter Sellers movie)
• Doctor Zhivago (Omar Sharif / Julie Christie / David Lean movie)
• Doctor doctor
• Doctor's Orders (Bingo call for number nine)
• Doctor, doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loving you (Robert Palmer song lyric)
• Doctor, heal thyself
• Enough to make you sick
• Exterminate exterminate (A catchphrase from Doctor Who)
• Feminine hygiene
• Flash crash (the sudden drop in the Dow Jones Index in 2010)
• Happy accident
• He's one sick puppy
• Head doctor
• House of ill repute
• I told you I was ill (Spike Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone)
• I'm a doctor, not a (A catchphrase from Leonard 'Bones' Mccoy In Star Trek)
• Ill advised
• Ill at ease
• Ill effects
• Ill fated

• Ill feeling
• Ill gotten gains
• Ill repute
• Ill temper
• Ill will
• In a critical condition
• Intensive care
• Is there a doctor in the house?
• It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
• Just What the Doctor Ordered (L&M Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Just what the doctor ordered
• Keyhole surgery
• Life is a sexually transmitted disease
• My son the doctor
• Never speak ill of the dead
• Nil by mouth
• Not the ill wind which blows no man to good
• Nurse a grudge
• Off sick
• On the sick list
• One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
• Open house
• Phone in sick
• Pitch doctor
• Ring in sick
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Separated at birth
• Sick and tired
• Sick joke
• Sick to death of
• Sick to the stomach
• Sick up
• Sleep hygiene
• Social disease
• Special hospital (A euphemistic term for a mental hospital)
• Spin doctor
• Tell me the worst doctor
• The Admirable Doctor (Nickname of Francis Bacon)
• The Birth of a Nation (D W Griffith / Lillian Gish movie)
• The British disease
• The English disease
• The House Doctor (Pseudonym of Ron Hazelton)
• The Sick Man of Europe (Nickname of Turkey)
• The doctor is in
• The inmates are running the asylum
• The sick man of Europe
• Train crash
• Trust me, I'm a doctor
• Uncle Dick (Cockney rhyming slang for sick)
• Worried sick