Ill Phrases

Phrases

• As sick as a dog
• As sick as a parrot
• As well as can be expected
• At death's door
• Come over all funny
• Day surgery (minor surgery that does not require the patient to stay in hospital overnight)
• Do you like hospital food?
• Enough to make you sick
• Green around the gills
• Half alive
• He's one sick puppy
• House of ill repute
• Hung over

• I told you I was ill (Spike Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone)
• Ill advised
• Ill at ease
• Ill effects
• Ill fated
• Ill feeling
• Ill gotten gains
• Ill repute
• Ill temper
• Ill will
• It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
• Like death warmed up
• More dead than alive

• Never speak ill of the dead
• Not the ill wind which blows no man to good
• Off sick
• Off your food
• On the critical list
• On the sick list
• Out of sorts
• Phone in sick
• Ring in sick
• Run a fever
• Running a fever
• Running a temperature
• Sick and tired

• Sick joke
• Sick to death of
• Sick to the stomach
• Sick up
• Special hospital (A euphemistic term for a mental hospital)
• Take to your bed
• The Sick Man of Europe (Nickname of Turkey)
• The sick man of Europe
• Uncle Dick (Cockney rhyming slang for sick)
• Under the weather
• Worried sick

Related

• House of ill repute
• I told you I was ill (Spike Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone)
• Ill advised
• Ill at ease
• Ill effects
• Ill fated
• Ill feeling
• Ill gotten gains
• Ill repute
• Ill temper
• Ill will
• It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
• Never speak ill of the dead
• Not the ill wind which blows no man to good