dress a/the/(one's) wound
dress a/the/(one's) wound
To clean, apply a medical treatment to, and bandage a wound. The nurse here will dress the wound, and then you'll be free to go. Come on, you have to wash your hands before you dress a wound—that's just common sense. I'll do my best to dress your wound, but you'll need proper medical attention soon.
See also: dress, wound
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- wound
- bandage up
- wind up with
- wind up with (someone or something)
- go to town
- ooze out
- open wound
- drunk as a lord
- (as) drunk as a lord
- pull oneself off