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Also, worried to death. Extremely anxious, as in Her parents were worried sick when she didn't come home all night, or We've been worried to death about the drop in the stock market. These somewhat hyperbolic phrases (one could conceivably feel ill from worrying but would hardly die from it) date from the second half of the 1800s.

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And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.
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I was sick in street gutters, onto my desk, at dinners with friends.
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We are the sick ones who torment trans people every day of their lives.
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Is there any chance the potential 2016 hopeful will stand up to the right and embrace paid sick leave?
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In fact, experts in airport security have long worried about this weakness.
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The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.
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I suppose he is sick of the sound of them, or perhaps it is because he feels obliged to be conscientious in teaching Beethoven!
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After the battle of the Pyramids he fell sick, and before the Syrian expedition, applied to return to France.
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And if he was worried about Farmer Green's cat, why didn't he dig a hole for himself at once, and get out of harm's way?
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This fact worried him considerably, and made him persist in his own mind that the company would accept it.
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