Health and Illness idioms 8th grade.

​Phrasal verbs associated with health and illness.

By Rain Blank

Multiple Choice

My close friend fractured his arm last week and the cast did not help.

Looks like he will this coming weekend.

• be out of shape

• go under the knife

• on the brink of death

• fit as a fiddle.

Multiple Choice

1. To recover from an illness, injury, financial trouble or any other difficult period.

• Be out of shape.

• Be back on your feet.

• On the brink of death.

Be back on your feet.

means to recover from an illness, injury, financial trouble, or any other difficult period, returning to a normal or healthy state. The phrase uses the literal act of standing up after a fall or illness as a metaphor for re-establishing one's health, activity, and normal life. 

Open Ended

Can you compose a sentence using the idiom "Be back on your feet"

Multiple Choice

In no condition to workout or lift light dumbbells.

• On the brink of death.

• Out of shape.

• Be back on your feet.

1. I am in no shape to run 20km.
2. I am definitely in no shape to fight a professional fighter.
3. I am certainly in no shape to pistol squat 20 times on each leg.

Multiple Choice

To be in a state of extreme weakness or a very dangerous situation where death is imminent and likely to occur soon.

• On the brink of death.

• In the brink of death.

• Something with death.

• The end.

to be in a state of extreme weakness or a very dangerous situation where death is imminent and likely to occur soon.

On the brink of death.

Multiple Choice

For a teacher who sleeps 6hrs a day, and 18hrs of work time, I would say I am.

(Healthy and full of energy)

• On your last legs.

• Fit as a fiddle.

• Sick as a dog.

• Be the picture of health.

Be in an excellent shape and feel healthy.

Fit as a fiddle.

Open Ended

Use "Fit as a fiddle" in a sentence.

To be extremely ill.

Sick as a dog.

Multiple Choice

I understand that my students have multiple subjects throughout the day. I should be bit more understanding when they do not listen attentively since they are on their

• Fit as a fiddle.

• Last leg.

• Be the picture of health.

• Sick as a dog.

Extremely exhausted. Close to fainting.

On last leg.

Multiple Choice

To lose consciousness or memory for a short period.

• Go under the knife.

• A bitter pill to swallow.

• To black out.

• Be under the weather.

Multiple Choice

To have a medical operation or have surgery.

• Go under the knifee.

• Go under the knife.

• To black out.

• A bitter pill to swallow.

Multiple Choice

1. an unpleasant or painful necessity to accept.

• A better pillow to swallow.

• A bitter pill to swallow.

• A sour pill to swallow.

• Something with pill and swallow.