polio
/ˈpəʊlɪəʊ
/noun
Short for poliomyelitis.There are few medicines used to treat diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and polio that have patents on them now....
- She suffered polio, double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which rendered her left leg useless.
- Unless polio is eliminated in India and Nigeria, global eradication cannot be achieved.
Rhymes
- not for love or money
- not for nothing
- not-for-profit
- not gate
- not give a bugger
- not give a shit
- not give a stuff
- not give a tinker's curse (or cuss or damn)
- not give (or care) a damn
- not give (or care) a fig
- not give (or care) a monkey's
- not give (or care) a rat's ass
- not give (or care) a whoop
- not give something houseroom
- not-go
- not go any further
- not guilty
- not half
- no thanks to
- not have a bar of
- not have a cat in hell's chance
- not have a leg to stand on
- not have a penny to bless oneself with
- not have a pot to piss in
- not have a prayer