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View synonyms for sick as a dog
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Very ill, especially from a stomach malady. For example, I don't know what was in that stew but I was sick as a dog all night . This simile was first recorded in 1705. Why a dog should be viewed as particularly sick remains unclear.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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