sick to one's stomach

sick to one's stomach
Nauseated, queasy.

[H]e had torn the paper from one of his cigarettes and was chewing the tobacco. This was his last resort, an expedient which he fell back upon only in great extremity, as it invariably made him sick to his stomach.


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