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Healthidioms

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The document defines several common health idioms used to describe people's health or medical conditions and procedures in an indirect way. It provides examples of idioms such as "to spill the beans" meaning "to tell a secret", "as white as a sheet" meaning very pale, "to get a spare tyre" meaning to have a roll of flesh around the waist, and "to go under the knife" meaning to have a medical operation. It then has sentences for the reader to fill in the blanks with the correct idioms.

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Health Idioms An Idiom is a group of words which, as a whole, has a different meaning of the words taken individually. Example: to spill the beans means “to tell a secret or let the information out before one should do so
As white/pale as a sheet Very pale; unwell; unhealthy
To get a spare tyre (informal) If a person has a spare tyre, they have a roll of flesh around the waist.
To go under the knife To have a medical operation
To be the picture of health To look extremely healthy
To pull through To get better after a serious illness, operation…
be as right as the rain Feel very healthy.
be/feel under the weather You feel slightly ill and not as well as usual
Consolidation: finish the sentences with the suitable words: 1. I haven’t been feeling well. I have been…. a. Under the rain b. under the weather. c. snowed under. 2. The doctors say I’m…. a. the portrait of health. b. the picture of health. c. the picture of prosperity.
3. His wife went… last night. a. under the water. b. under the weather. c. under the knife. 4. Although the man was very sick, I think he will…. a. feel on top of the world. b. pull through. c. go under the knife.
5. No problem, no disease. Everything is fine! I feel…. a. under the weather. b. on top of the world. c. in the skies. 6. You don’t look well at all. You’re as… as a sheet. f. Yellow g. blue. h. white
7. Of course I can work. I feel as right as…. a. rain b. snow. c. wind. 8. I’d better go on a diet. I’m getting a … a. spare wheel. b. spare tyre. c. spare part.

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Healthidioms

  • 1. Health Idioms An Idiom is a group of words which, as a whole, has a different meaning of the words taken individually. Example: to spill the beans means “to tell a secret or let the information out before one should do so
  • 2. As white/pale as a sheet Very pale; unwell; unhealthy
  • 3. To get a spare tyre (informal) If a person has a spare tyre, they have a roll of flesh around the waist.
  • 4. To go under the knife To have a medical operation
  • 5. To be the picture of health To look extremely healthy
  • 6. To pull through To get better after a serious illness, operation…
  • 7. be as right as the rain Feel very healthy.
  • 8. be/feel under the weather You feel slightly ill and not as well as usual
  • 9. Consolidation: finish the sentences with the suitable words: 1. I haven’t been feeling well. I have been…. a. Under the rain b. under the weather. c. snowed under. 2. The doctors say I’m…. a. the portrait of health. b. the picture of health. c. the picture of prosperity.
  • 10. 3. His wife went… last night. a. under the water. b. under the weather. c. under the knife. 4. Although the man was very sick, I think he will…. a. feel on top of the world. b. pull through. c. go under the knife.
  • 11. 5. No problem, no disease. Everything is fine! I feel…. a. under the weather. b. on top of the world. c. in the skies. 6. You don’t look well at all. You’re as… as a sheet. f. Yellow g. blue. h. white
  • 12. 7. Of course I can work. I feel as right as…. a. rain b. snow. c. wind. 8. I’d better go on a diet. I’m getting a … a. spare wheel. b. spare tyre. c. spare part.

Editor's Notes

  1. An Idiom is a group of words which, as a whole has a different meaning from the meaning of the words taken individually.