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English
Adjective
sick to one's stomach (comparative more sick to one's stomach, superlative most sick to one's stomach)
- (chiefly US) Nauseated, queasy or vomiting, sick.
1914, Frank Norris, chapter 17, in Vandover and the Brute:[H]e had torn the paper from one of his cigarettes and was chewing the tobacco. This was his last resort, an expedient which he fell back upon only in great extremity, as it invariably made him sick to his stomach.
2004, “Puke”, in Encore, performed by Eminem:You don't know how sick you make me / You make me fucking sick to my stomach / Every time I think of you I puke
2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:Tonight there was no roar from the Mini’s engine, rather that grinding noise. A deathly hush descended on the crowd. Frank felt sick to his stomach. Suddenly there was a huge explosion from Queenie’s exhaust pipe.