off one's feed

Have no desire to eat, have lost one's appetite, as in Even though Mom's gone only for a week, her absence puts Dad off his feed. Originating in the early 1800s and first used only for animals, this colloquial term later was applied to humans as well.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Bhavna	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam
Taras	tah-RAHS (Russian)	Ukrainian, Russian
In'am	-	Arabic
Junior	['dʒu:njə]
Ida	IE-də (English), EE-dah (German, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Italian)	English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Slovene
Denis	de-NEE (French), DEN-is (English), DE-nis (German)	French, Russian, English, German, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Romanian, Croatian