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green around the gills

ADJECTIVE

sick

Synonyms

WEAK

blah crummy miserable nauseated pale queasy shaky sick as a dog sick to one's stomach throwing up under the weather vomiting

Example Sentences

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Other acts are more green around the gills.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2022

Not that I’m keeping score, of course, but I’ve been a little green around the gills — or worse — on whale-watching boats, car ferries, sailboats, kayaks and cruises ships large and small.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2018

A: I’m pretty sure there will be green beer, green clothes and a few people green around the gills.

From Washington Times • Mar. 7, 2016

Confronting his mother makes my boyfriend green around the gills, and I have no idea how to respond to this.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2016

He did, however, look a little green around the gills, probably from the garlic.

From "Bunnicula" by Deborah Howe and James Howe