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make one sick

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  1. Disgust one, as in Your constant complaining makes me sick. This expression transfers the sensations of physical illness to strong negative sentiments. [c. 1800]


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"To act as a physician," he writes, "the priest must make one sick!"

From The Guardian ● Feb. 1, 2013

He conveys what he learns as something that a middle-aged man should already know: months of wandering in a hard place make one sick, lonely, itchy and tired.

From Time Magazine Archive

If anything could make one sick of "the next age," it would be the shabby treatment which the Avonian has received.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various

The look of it was enough to make one sick!

From Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron by Unknown

Why," pursued my friend, "there is Mr. B., my next door neighbor—'tis enough to make one sick of life in the city to spend a week out on his farm.

From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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