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Sick as a pig

March 7, 2006

Phew, what a day. The house of DDWT is now a house full of people with gastro enteritis – which for those of you who know, isn’t a very pleasant experience. At the last count, I’d lost 13lbs in less than 24 hours – scary indeed and no doubt it will take a good few days to build myself back up again. I’m all for losing some of my excess waistline baggage – but not this way!

A thought occurred to me whilst writing here as to the whereabouts of the term “sick as a pig” actually comes from – as it doesn’t really strike me as being an obvious association to make. Hmm, I couldn’t even find reference to its origins via Google (which is a rather unusual occurrence).

Thanks to Magic Door (whom you can tell is a knowledge analyst) for the pointer to the answer to the question I posed above. I still reckon it’s a weird expression though.

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About Duncan Thomas

A father of two and husband to one. Loves to cycle and run badly. Wannabe writer and photographer. Lifelong Swansea City and Wales football fan. Always look forward and never look back.

Comments

  1. Magic Door says

    March 8, 2006 at 11:15 am

    Re: sick as a pig (and my sympathies by the way) try http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm
    – I haven’t the time!!!!!
    Cheers

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