| 单词 | white around the gills |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite (also pale, yellow) around the gills d. white (also pale, yellow) around the gills and variants: pallid and unhealthy in appearance due to illness, nausea, fright, etc. ΚΠ 1811 Sporting Mag. Dec. 103/2 [He] grew white about the gills. 1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 168 He..looked very yellow in the gills, though clearly convalescent. 1965 C. Himes Cotton comes to Harlem vii. 75 They were frustrated and dead beat... Anderson said..‘Go home and get some sleep.’ He looked white about the gills himself. 1989 J. Casey Spartina (1990) 170 Dick was about to take her down a notch by bringing up how pale around the gills she'd been on account of the sharks. 2011 Sentinel (Stoke) (Nexis) 17 June 18 Dan is lying in the hospital bed looking yellow around the gills. < as lemmas |
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