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Scott: Keith woke up the day that people are coming in, Sunday morning, and he is sick as a dog.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

“If you’re sick as a dog, you say, ‘Darling, I gotta make it.’

From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2024

He also would be as sick as a dog the next day.

From Slate • Jul. 1, 2013

"We have four days off coming up here, and I would have been sick as a dog if we would have lost this game," Bryant said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2006

"And is it there ye're lying on the broad of yer back, and me as sick as a dog fornent ye?"

From The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1 by Lever, Charles James




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