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he'll be out and about again in a few days.'
'He's had a relapse ... he's no better ... he's getting worse ... his condition is deteriorating ... he's getting weaker ... he's slipping away ... fading fast... his life is hanging by a thread ... it's just a matter of time ... he could go at any second!'
'He's made a miraculous recovery ... he's as good as new ... as right as rain ... he'll live till he's a hundred.'

To be bit off-colour - to be slightly ill
To be under the weather - to feel sick
to feel funny - to feel slightly ill
to be sickening for - to be starting to have or suffer from (an illness)
to feel feverish - your body temperature is higher than normal
to feel like death warmed up - extremely tired or ill.
To have not regained consciousness - не приходити до тями
To be responding to treatment - the treatment is working and patient is getting better (реагує на лікування, покращується стан)
To be off the danger list - ...

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year, most of us had been allergic to work; apparently there had been a history of such allergies in the school.
Throughout the spring there had been quite a few cases of 'Exams are stupid', which proved highly contagious among friends.
Then in late May, one or two of us suffered a mild attack of 'Gosh, is it really next month?' and we seemed to give that to the others rather rapidly. You could tell how it was spreading from improved attendance at lessons.
An even more serious outbreak was that of the very infectious 'I don't know a thing" two weeks before. At about the same time everyone seemed to catch 'You're no good!' from the teachers. Then there was a bout of 'I don't really care' ...

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