Unwell Phrases

Phrases

• As sick as a dog
• As sick as a parrot
• At death's door
• Enough to make you sick
• He's one sick puppy
• 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
• Off sick
• On the sick list
• One foot in the grave

• Phone in sick
• Ring in sick
• Sick and tired
• Sick joke
• Sick to death of
• Sick to the stomach
• Sick up
• The Sick Man of Europe (Nickname of Turkey)
• The sick man of Europe
• Uncle Dick (Cockney rhyming slang for sick)
• Worried sick