white around the gills

Pale, typically due to nausea or fear. I get terrible motion sickness, so I'm sure I was a little white around the gills when I stumbled off the plane. I was white around the gills for awhile after my brother jumped out of the closet and scared me.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Amariah	am-ə-RIE-ə (English)	Biblical
Bituin	-	Tagalog
Aleksey	ah-lyek-SYAY (Russian), ah-leek-SYAY (Russian)	Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Arkaitz	-	Basque
Ursula	UR-sə-lə (English), UR-syə-lə (English), OOR-soo-lah (Finnish)	English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch, Finnish, Late Roman
Iorwerth	-	Welsh