sick to one's stomach

adjective

Nauseated, queasy or vomiting, sick.

Meanings

adjectivesick to one's stomach (comparative more sick to one's stomach, superlative most sick to one's stomach)

comparative more sick to one's stomach · superlative most sick to one's stomach

  1. USNauseated, queasy or vomiting, sick.

    You don't know how sick you make me / You make me fucking sick to my stomach / Every time I think of you I puke

    2004, “Puke”, in Encore, performed by Eminem
    2 more examples

    [H]e had torn the paper from one of his cigarettes and was chewing the tobacco. This was his last resort, an expedient which he fell back upon only in great extremity, as it invariably made him sick to his stomach.

    1914, Frank Norris, chapter 17, in Vandover and the Brute

    Tonight there was no roar from the Mini’s engine, rather that grinding noise. A deathly hush descended on the crowd. Frank felt sick to his stomach. Suddenly there was a huge explosion from Queenie’s exhaust pipe.

    2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

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