be green around the gills
old-fashioned humorousto look ill and pale:
Some of the passengers looked kind of green around the gills after the trip!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Being & falling ill
- ail
- be laid up idiom
- be out of sorts idiom
- break
- bring
- burned out
- burnt out
- catch your death of cold idiom
- come down with sth
- declension
- food
- KO
- laid
- pick sth up
- pneumonia
- prone
- relapse
- sicken
- strike
- upset
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