«white-around-the-gills» / Lingvo Live

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Lyudmila Yakovlevaasked for translation 5 years ago

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white-around-the-gills

User translations (2)

1.
to look/go/get (a little) white around the gills
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выглядеть немного бледным
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2.
to look/go/get (a little) white around the gills
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неважно выглядеть
Translator's comment
иногда от страха, но обычно, когда кого-то что-то тошнит - и без дефисов
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Discussion (4)

⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 5 years ago

This expression can be used with GREEN, BLUE and WHITE, but the most common way is with GREEN: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?corpus=26&smoothing=3&content=white+around+the+gills%2C+green+around+the+gills%2C+blue+around+the+gills&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cwhite%20around%20the%20gills%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cgreen%20around%20the%20gills%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cblue%20around%20the%20gills%3B%2Cc0

⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 5 years ago

Also note that it’s used humorously or sarcastically for the most part.

Tatiana Gerasimenkoadded a comment 5 years ago

👍... ОТ ЧЕГО-ТО тошнит

⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 5 years ago

Thank you 🙏

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