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
Adam	['ædəm]
Karp	KAHRP	Russian
Elene	-	Georgian
InÊS	ee-NESH	Portuguese
Pradeep	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Nepali
Edi	-	Slovene, Croatian