Patient Phrases

Phrases

• As patient as Job
• Bed bath
• Bed blocking
• Count to ten
• Day surgery (minor surgery that does not require the patient to stay in hospital overnight)
• Fashion victim
• Hold your horses
• I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking (the opening line of Goodbye To Berlin)
• Long suffering
• Nil by mouth
• Passive aggressive
• Passive smoking
• Patience is a virtue
• Patient Zero (Nickname of Gilbert Arenas)
• The Adventure of the Resident Patient (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The patience of Job