laid-up

"I don't know what to say, man, I've been laid up for like six years...thank you from the bottom of my heart," he told the crowd.

“You can’t be laid up like this too much longer,” she insists, and it’s a credit to Deadwyler that even in this absurdist moment, we see the fear under her armor.

I tutted something about the symptoms of perimenopause and ignored it - but two days later I was laid up in bed with gastric flu.

“I’ll likely get my surgery in late September, be laid up for a month, and — God willing — be cancer-free and back at it by the end of October,” he said.

One of the most memorable bikers depicted in the film is Zipco, a Latvian immigrant Lyon once interviewed at length while he was laid up in the hospital after a drunken riding accident.