Learn a useful list of 30 common medical and health idioms in English.
Medical and Health Idioms in EnglishMedical and Health Idioms | ImageThere are many idioms in English that native speakers use to describe health and illness …
1. As fit as a fiddle – Be healthy and physically fit
2. Black and blue – Bruised, showing signs of having been physically harmed
3. Clean bill of health – A report or certificate that a person or animal is healthy
4. Flare-up – Begin again suddenly (an illness or a disease)
5. Go under the knife – Have an operation in surgery, often a cosmetic surgery
6. Splitting headache – A severe headache
7. Alive and kicking – Be well and healthy
8. As pale as a ghost – Extremely pale
9. At death’s door – Very near death
10. A bitter pill to swallow – An unpleasant fact that one must accept
11. Break out in a cold sweat – Perspire from fever or anxiety
12. Breathe one’s last – Die
13. Bundle of nerves – A very nervous or anxious person
14. Catch one’s death of cold – Become very ill
15. A dose of one’s own medicine – The same treatment that one gives to others
16. Feel on top of the world – Feel very healthy
17. Fill a prescription – Get some medicine from a pharmacy with the orders from the doctor
18. Get a black eye – Get a bruise or darkened eye after being hit or after bumping into something
19. Get sick – Become ill
20. Green around the gills – Look sick
21. Gave a physical (examination) – Get a medical check-up
22. Gave foot-in-mouth disease – Embarrass oneself through a silly mistake
23. In the best of health – Very healthy
24. Nothing but skin and bones – Be very thin or emaciated
25. Nurse (someone) back to health – Give someone care to restore him or her to good health
26. On medication – Taking medicine for a current medical problem
27. On the mend – Becoming better, becoming well, healing
28. Out of condition/ out of shape – Not in a good physical condition
29. Picture of health – A perfect example of health
30. Refill a prescription – Sell the second set of medicine on a doctor’s orders
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