2014-09-09 Elective: medical idioms

Greg Malivuk
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as white as a sheet

(as clear as mud)

as healthy as a horse

- these types of comparisons are called similes

"Don't sugarcoat it, doctor. Am I going to die?"

shiner = black eye (more or less)

black out = lose your memory of events during a certain time

pass out = lose consciousness completely; faint

breakdown lane = the space on the side of the road for cars that are having some trouble

There was an Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
There was a breakout at the prison.

The forest/house/building burned down. (it was up, now it's gone)
...burned up. (It was here, now it's completely smoke.)

The fire/candle/light burned out.

a cold, the flu
no article with other diseases

(symptoms: a headache, a fever, a cough, a rash, etc.)

You can deposit or withdraw money at the ATM.