painter's colic
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of painter's colic
First recorded in 1815–25
Example Sentences
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As there is housemaid's knee, and painter's colic, so there is millionaire's melancholia.
From Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents by Rupert Hughes
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 Eugène Sue
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 C. E. (Clara Elizabeth) Fanning
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 Thomas A. Brown
It is often cultivated for the beauty of its flowers; the leaves are considered a valuable cathartic, in moderate doses, especially in the cure of painter's colic; in large doses they are violently emetic.
From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders
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