{"id":73274,"date":"2020-03-23T06:25:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T06:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73274"},"modified":"2020-03-23T06:25:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T06:25:03","slug":"as-sick-as-a-dog-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/as-sick-as-a-dog-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"As Sick As A Dog | English Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are\u00a0<b>as sick as a dog<\/b>, you are very ill and vomiting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sam could not go to the party, because he was\u00a0<b>as sick as a dog<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>I have never been so ill in my life. I was\u00a0<b>sick as a dog<\/b>. (= I was very ill.)<\/li>\n<li>I couldn\u2019t enjoy the outing because I was\u00a0<b>sick as a dog<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why do people say\u00a0<b>sick as a dog<\/b>, and\u00a0<b>not<\/b>\u00a0sick as a horse or cat? Well, some people believe that it is because dogs eat just about everything they find. Therefore they fall ill very often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are\u00a0as sick as a dog, you are very ill and vomiting. Sam could not go to the party, because he was\u00a0as sick as a dog. I have never been so ill in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2128,393],"class_list":["post-73274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-as-sick-as-a-dog","tag-english-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73275,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73274\/revisions\/73275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}