sick to one's stomach

English

Adjective

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

  1. (chiefly US) Nauseated, queasy or vomiting, sick.
    • 1914, Frank Norris, chapter 17, in Vandover and the Brute:
      [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.
    • 2004, “Puke”, in Encore, performed by Eminem:
      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
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