📌 15 Health Idioms
🍏 to be alive and kicking/well = to be well and healthy; to continue to be popular (жив и здоров, полон жизни)
🍏 as fit as a fiddle = healthy, strong and physically fit (здоровый, в хорошей форме)
🍏 as pale as a ghost/as death = extremely pale (очень бледный, бледный как смерть)
🍏 black-and-blue = covered with bruises (в синяках)
🍏 bundle of nerves = a very nervous person (очень нервничающий или напряженный человек, комок нервов)
🍏 to burn oneself out = to do something so long and so intensely that one becomes very tired and almost sick of doing it (вымотаться, дойти до предела)
🍏 to catch/get a cold = to come down with a cold (простудиться)
🍏 check-up = medical examination (медицинский осмотр)
🍏 (head) shrinker = a psychotherapist (психоаналитик, психотерапевт)
🍏 to be in labor = to go through childbirth (быть в родах)
🍏 to go under the knife = to have a medical operation (подвергнуться операции, лечь под нож)
🍏 to pass away = to die (умереть, скончаться)
🍏 to take a sick day = to be absent from work and still receive pay (взять больничный)
🍏 nothing but skin and bones = painfully thin (очень худой, кожа да кости)
🍏 die with one's boots on = A person who dies with their boots on, dies while still leading an active life.
