C1idiominformalhealthIELTS-friendly
be laid up
USUK
to have to stay in bed because you are ill or injured
Usually passive, with 'with' + the illness: 'laid up with a bad back'. The form is 'laid', from 'lay', not 'lain'.
In context
I was laid up with flu for the whole of Tet this year.
He's been laid up for a month since he broke his leg in a motorbike accident.
More idioms about health
- a clean bill of healtha doctor's statement, after an examination, that someone is healthy
- a new lease of lifenew energy, or a chance to be active or useful again
- a ripe old agea very old age, reached in good health
- a second windnew energy that lets you continue after you felt too tired
- a shadow of your former selfmuch weaker, thinner or less impressive than before