Aunt Jane said that taking care of us children all day was enough to give any woman nervous prostration.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
nervous prostration — {n.} An illness of the mind that makes you feel very tired, worried, and bored, and that often causes headaches, upset stomach, and other sickness. * /Aunt Jane said that taking care of us children all day was enough to give any woman nervous… … Dictionary of American idioms
nervous prostration — {n.} An illness of the mind that makes you feel very tired, worried, and bored, and that often causes headaches, upset stomach, and other sickness. * /Aunt Jane said that taking care of us children all day was enough to give any woman nervous… … Dictionary of American idioms
nervous prostration — Synonyms and related words: breakdown, circulatory collapse, collapse, crack up, crackup, draining, exhaustedness, exhaustion, frayed nerves, frazzled nerves, jangled nerves, nervous breakdown, nervous exhaustion, neurasthenia, neurosis,… … Moby Thesaurus
nervous prostration — noun an emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work • Syn: ↑nervous exhaustion • Hypernyms: ↑nervous breakdown * * * noun see nervous breakdown … Useful english dictionary
nervous prostration — neurasthenia … Medical dictionary
nervous breakdown — [n] mental collapse burnout*, crackup*, depression, emotional collapse, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, shattered nerves; concept 410 … New thesaurus
nervous breakdown — Synonyms and related words: brain disease, breakdown, circulatory collapse, collapse, crack up, crackup, emotional disorder, emotional instability, exhaustion, frayed nerves, frazzled nerves, functional nervous disorder, insanity, jangled nerves … Moby Thesaurus
nervous exhaustion — noun an emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work • Syn: ↑nervous prostration • Hypernyms: ↑nervous breakdown * * * extreme mental and physical fatigue caused by excessive emotional stress; neurasthenia. Also called nervous… … Useful english dictionary
prostration — n. heat; nervous prostration * * * [prɒ streɪʃ(ə)n] nervous prostration heat … Combinatory dictionary
prostration — Synonyms and related words: accubation, accumbency, aching heart, adoration, adulation, adynamia, agony, agony of mind, anemia, anguish, apple polishing, ass kissing, atony, backscratching, bale, bend, bending the knee, bitterness, blah feeling,… … Moby Thesaurus
