Idiom
be at the plague
Meaning
To be bothered; to make the effort to do something.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I cannot be at the plague to clean the kitchen today.”
“He was so tired after work that he could not be at the plague to cook dinner.”
“Despite the mounting pressure to finish the report, she simply could not be at the plague to address the client's trivial complaints.”
Examples
simple
“I cannot be at the plague to clean the kitchen today.”
contextual
“He was so tired after work that he could not be at the plague to cook dinner.”
complex
“Despite the mounting pressure to finish the report, she simply could not be at the plague to address the client's trivial complaints.”
Key words
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