| 词组 | green around the gills |
| 释义 | Idiom pale around the gills and blue around the gills; green around the gills Theme: HEALTH - POOR looking sick. (Informal. The around can be replaced with about.)John is looking a little pale around the gills. What's wrong?Oh, I feel a little green about the gills. Slang blue around the gills and green around the gills Theme: INTOXICATED - ALCOHOL mod. alcohol intoxicated.In the middle of the drink, I knew I was getting blue around the gills.Marty—now thoroughly green around the gills—slid neatly under the table, and everyone pretended not to notice. Theme: SICKNESS mod. ill; nauseated.You are looking a little blue around the gills.How about a little air? I feel a little green around the gills. green around the gills adjective giving an appearance of being about to vomit US, 1985green around the gillsNauseated. After all that drinking last night, I sure am green around the gills today. The steady rocking of the boat caused Colleen to be green around the gills. green around the gillsIf someone looks green around the gills, they look ill, as if they are going to vomit. Kenny stumbled out from the washroom looking rather green around the gills. Note: The gills of a fish are the organs it uses to breathe instead of lungs. This is being used as a humorous term for the mouth. green around the gillsverbSee blue around the gills green around the gillsLooking ill; sick to one’s stomach. A green complexion has signified illness since about 1300, and “rosy about the gills” has meant being in good health since the late seventeenth century. Sir Francis Bacon used red about the gills to signify anger (1626), whereas in the nineteenth century white and yellow about the gills meant looking ill. However, green won out and survives in the present-day cliché. |
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