Idiom
sick as a parrot
Meaning
Very disappointed; miserable.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He was sick as a parrot after his team lost the game.”
“She felt sick as a parrot when she realized she had missed the final train home.”
“The candidate was sick as a parrot upon discovering that his lifelong ambition had been thwarted by a last-minute administrative error.”
Examples
simple
“He was sick as a parrot after his team lost the game.”
contextual
“She felt sick as a parrot when she realized she had missed the final train home.”
complex
“The candidate was sick as a parrot upon discovering that his lifelong ambition had been thwarted by a last-minute administrative error.”
Origin
(very disappointed): Apparently of sporting (soccer) origin.
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