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out of shape
USUK
not physically fit, usually because you have not exercised for a long time
About fitness, not weight. The opposite is 'in (good) shape'. Often with 'get', 'feel' or 'so'.
In context
I was so out of shape after Tet that I couldn't run to the bus stop.
Climbing the stairs to the fifth floor showed me how out of shape I am.
More idioms about health
- a clean bill of healtha doctor's statement, after an examination, that someone is healthy
- back on your feethealthy and active again after an illness or injury
- butterflies in your stomacha nervous, fluttering feeling before something important
- get on someone's nervesto annoy someone, especially by doing something again and again
- go under the knifeto have a medical operation