painter's colic
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of painter's colic
First recorded in 1815–25
Example Sentences
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He kissed her on the cheek, It seemed a harmless frolic; He's been laid up a week They say, with painter's colic.
From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by Fanning, C. E. (Clara Elizabeth)
It is a very fine trade; those who are employed in it, at the end of a month or two, have the painter's colic; of three attacked, about one dies.
From Mysteries of Paris, V3 by Sue, Eugène
He kissed her on the cheek; It seemed a harmless frolic; He's been laid up a week— They say, with painter's colic.
From The New Pun Book by Brown, Thomas A.
As there is housemaid's knee, and painter's colic, so there is millionaire's melancholia.
From Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents by Hughes, Rupert
There may be specimens there, for priggishness is just like painter's colic or any other trade-disease.
From Memories and Studies by James, Henry
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