🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

心配で気がおかしくなりそうな

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shinpai de ki ga okashiku narisou na

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Worried sick/ˈwɜːrid sɪk/
adjective phraseCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼女は子供の帰りが遅くて心配で気が気ではなかった。"

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As adjective phrase
  1. 1

    Extremely anxious, distressed, or worried about someone or something to the point of feeling physically ill.

    "She was worried sick when her teenage son didn't return home by midnight."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'worried', derived from the Old English 'wyrgan' meaning 'to strangle or choke', with 'sick', from Old English 'sēoc', denoting physical illness. Historically, the idiom developed to describe a state of anxiety so intense that it manifests as physical nausea or bodily malaise, bridging emotional distress and somatic illness.

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