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sick as a dog

Posted on Wednesday 20 October 2004 by Joshua

Everyone says that phrase, but few even know it’s origin… and I was one of them. [“There are several expressions of the form sick as a …, that date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sick as a dog is actually the oldest of them, recorded from 1705; it is probably no more than an attempt to give force to a strongly worded statement of physical unhappiness.”] Anyway, point being… the past three days I have been sick as a dog. Yup, that’s right folks, it is time for the annual fall cold.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sic1.htm

3 thoughts on “sick as a dog”

  1. Dahci says:
    Thursday 21 October 2004 at 12:19 am

    I am just so glad you are resting! 😉

  2. Betsy says:
    Wednesday 20 October 2004 at 6:08 pm

    So, Joshua…..Uhm….You really did have way too much time on your hands today, didn’t you?
    Just teasing. 🙂 I pray you get feeling better…cuz the leaves are REALLY bad outside. 😀 😀 😀 😀 Love ya man!

  3. KC says:
    Wednesday 20 October 2004 at 4:43 pm

    hey, join the club buddy! i can’t describe to you how miserable i feel in the mornings. i almost have to sleep sitting up in order to keep breathing. its terrible. i hope we feel better.

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