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Health Idioms
An Idiom is a group of words which, as a whole, has a different meaning of the words taken individually.
Example: to spill the beans means “to tell a secret or let the information out before one should do so
As white/pale as a sheet
Very pale; unwell; unhealthy
To get a spare tyre (informal)
If a person has a spare tyre, they have a roll of flesh around the waist.
To go under the knife
To have a medical operation
To be the picture of health
To look extremely healthy
To pull through
To get better after a serious illness, operation…
be as right as the rain
Feel very healthy.
be/feel under the weather
You feel slightly ill and not as well as usual
Consolidation: finish the sentences with the suitable words:
1. I haven’t been feeling well. I have been….a. Under the rainb. under the weather.c. snowed under.
2. The doctors say I’m….a. the portrait of health.b. the picture of health.c. the picture of prosperity.
3. His wife went… last night.a. under the water.b. under the weather.c. under the knife.
4. Although the man was very sick, I think he will….a. feel on top of the world.b. pull through.c. go under the knife.
5. No problem, no disease. Everything is fine! I feel….a. under the weather.b. on top of the world.c. in the skies.
6. You don’t look well at all. You’re as… as a sheet.
a. Yellowb. blue.c. white
7. Of course I can work. I feel as right as….
a. rain
b. snow.
c. wind.
8. I’d better go on a diet. I’m getting a …
a. spare wheel.
b. spare tyre.
c. spare part.