Learn about different Health and Fitness related idioms to express your condition. You can also take reference to the meaning provided to understand the usage of all the idioms and tell if you are healthy, fit or ill.
30 Idioms for Medical Condition – Healthy or Ill
We have got an interesting list of idioms that you can use to describe your medical condition.
Idioms
Meaning
Alive And Kicking
In good health despite health problems
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
Eating healthy foods will keep one from getting sick (and needing to see a doctor)
As fit as a fiddle
To be healthy and physically fit
As pale as a ghost
Extremely pale
As pale as death
Extremely pale
At death’s door
Very near death
Back on one’s feet
Physically healthy again
Be on the Mend
Be improving after an illness
A bitter pill to swallow
An unpleasant fact that one must accept
Black-and-blue
Bruised, showing signs of having been physically harmed
Break out in a cold sweat
To perspire from fever or anxiety
Catch one’s death of cold
To become very ill
Feel on top of the world
To feel very healthy
Get a charley horse
To develop a cramp in the arm or the leg
Go Under the Knife
Undergo surgery
Go Viral
Begin to spread rapidly on the Internet
Green around the gills
To look sick
Have foot-in-mouth disease
To embarrass oneself through a silly mistake
Have one foot in the grave
To be near death (usually because of old age or illness)
Just what the doctor ordered
Exactly the thing that is or was needed to help improve something or make one feel better
Kink in one’s neck
A cramp in one’s neck that causes pain
Laughter is the best medicine
Laughing a lot is a very effective means of recovering from physical or mental injury
Run in the family
To be a common family characteristic
Sick and Tired of
Extremely annoyed by something that occurs repeatedly
Sick as a Dog
Extremely ill
Take your medicine
Accept something unpleasant,
Taste of your own medicine
The same unpleasant experience or treatment that one has given to others
Under the weather
Not feeling well
Clean bill of health
A report or certificate that a person or animal is healthy
Flare-up
Begin again suddenly
Splitting headache
A severe headache
Breathe one’s last
Die
Bundle of nerves
A very nervous or anxious person
Get a black eye
Get a bruise or darkened eye after being hit or after bumping into something
In the best of health
Very healthy
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