sick as a dog
Adjective
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Adjective
sick as a dog (not comparable)
- (simile) Very ill.
- I caught that new strain of flu and for three days I was as sick as a dog.
- 1797, John Banks, The Albion Queens, or The Death of Mary, Queen of Scots: A Tragedy, J. Bell, [http://books.google.com/books?id=M2ULAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA28&dq=%22sick+as+a+dog%22+date:1600-1800&as_brr=0 page 32]
- Ay, but thou knowest he's as uncertain as the wind; and if, instead of quarrelling with me, he should grow fond, he'd make me as sick as a dog.
- French: malade comme un chien
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