Idioms from Medicine

"blood is thicker than water"

• to not like your family

• family is the most important

• to run away

• to hide

"a bitter pill to swallow"

• medicine

• aspirin

• a difficult problem to accept or deal with

• prescription

"to cough up"

• to pay what is owed

• to save your money

• go to the bank

• to be sick

"to feel it in your bones"

• x-ray

• doctor's visit

• to have a strange feeling

• twisted ankle

"a fly in the ointment"

• an insect

• a problem or situation

• fly swatter

• bugs

"to get burned"

• the fire depatment

• arson

• to get cheated, tricked out of money

• fire hose

"to give a taste of their own medicine"

• to treat someone the same way they treat you

• to treat differently

• cough medicine

• to have a cold

"to have a lot of nerve"

• to be shy

• quiet

• to freely tell your ideas or opinions no matter what

• to be ill

"to hold your breath"

• to brush your teeth

• to wait for something to happen

• to yell at someone

• to be scared

"sick and tired"

• to enjoy something

• frustrated or angry about something

• to enjoy a trip

• Hawaii