sick list
Americannoun
idioms
noun
Etymology
Origin of sick list
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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A training accident made Waitt so allergic to tear gas that the slightest whiff of it puts him on the sick list.
From Time Magazine Archive
In one year nearly half the Fromm foxes died of encephalitis, but now the Fromms have their sick list down to about 5%.
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
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
About this time, an epidemic disorder had shown itself among the crew, which spread rapidly, and in a short time our sick list amounted to six or seven-and-twenty.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
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