| 单词 | blue around the gills |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue around the gills b. blue around the gills and variants: bluish and unhealthy in appearance due to illness or low spirits. ΚΠ 1665 R. Flecknoe Ænigmatical Characters (new ed.) viii. 11 Of a Fine Nice City Dame. She is one your Cockneys call a Beauty, because like a sick Turkey she looks a little blewish about the gills, and has a faint white Complexion of the colour of fletten milk. 1833 U.S. Tel. (Washington, D.C.) 12 Sept. Croswell looks blue about the gills, with some symptoms of mortification in the vicinity of the pocket. 1876 Musical World 15 Apr. 271/1 I don't wonder at their looking so blue about the gills. Such fisiky music is enuf to give 'em the molly grubs. 1934 J. M. Cain Postman always rings Twice vi. 48 From the way I was acting, you would have thought I had heart failure and a couple more things besides. I was plenty blue around the gills. 2017 Idaho Falls Post Reg. (Nexis) 22 Feb. Co-workers seem a bit more sullen—blue around the gills. < as lemmas |
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