on the Pat and Mick
See also: on the pat and mick
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
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Prepositional phrase
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Sick; out of commission due to being unwell.
- 1981 Oct. 2, Jack McLean, "Limping along the road to recovery," Glasgow Herald (Scotland) (retrieved 10 Aug 2015):
- Things are very different when you are off on the sick. . . . For a start, when you are on the Pat and Mick you no longer go to work.
- 2008 July 22, Daisy Dart, "Re: Fatal bus accident in Leeds," Bus and Coach Forum (UK) (retrieved 10 Aug 2015):
- I'm on the pat and mick at the mo. Only went to town to see my mother off on the train, as she'd come down for the weekend to cheer me up.
- 2013 Dec. 8, Bren, "Dropped car battery," autoshite.com Motoring chat forum (UK) (retrieved 10 Aug 2015):
- While lifting the SD1's battery the handle came off. . . . [I]t then bounced and landed on my foot—good job I was wearing my toetectors otherwise I would have spent Christmas on the pat and mick.
- 1981 Oct. 2, Jack McLean, "Limping along the road to recovery," Glasgow Herald (Scotland) (retrieved 10 Aug 2015):
Synonyms
- laid up; see also Thesaurus:diseased