be green about the gills

be green about/around the gills

(humorous)

to look ill, as if you are going to vomit He was out drinking last night, was he? I thought he looked a bit green about the gills this morning.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Mladenka	-	Croatian, Serbian
Hiawatha	hie-ə-WAHTH-ə (English)	History, Native American, Iroquois
Ferenc	FE-rents	Hungarian
Lucjusz	LUWTS-yuwsh	Polish
Bion	-	Ancient Greek
Nontle	-	Southern African, Xhosa