sick list
Americannoun
idioms
noun
Etymology
Origin of sick list
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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Swept into office by a landslide vote, the dumpling-shaped doctor decided that only a daring gamble would ever get Okayama off the economic sick list.
From Time Magazine Archive
Baltimore and Seattle, among others, would limp through their seasons, still on the sick list.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a typical month, dozens of them wind up on the sick list as a result of diabetes, birth complications, infected teeth, or any one of a score of other problems, including injuries from fighting.
From Time Magazine Archive
In restless Barcelona, where the Reds had hoped to put on their most impressive performance, even men on sick list went off to their factories.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'm attached to X Company to-day, as young Jackson is on the sick list?
From Our Battalion Being Some Slight Impressions of His Majesty's Auxiliary Forces, in Camp and Elsewhere by Raven-Hill, Leonard
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