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doctor's orders

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doctor's orders something
that one is strongly advised to do as ordered or as if ordered by a doctor. I have to spend a month in Arizona. Doctor's orders. I'm doing this on doctor's orders, but I don't like it.
See also: order


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Pollyanna, meanwhile, in accordance with the doctor's orders, was being escorted to John Pendleton's rooms.
"What I say is," her husband protested sullenly, "that we ought to wait for the doctor's orders.
He sat up alone with him through the night, only ordering the housekeeper to lie down in her clothes, so as to be ready when he called her, alleging his own indisposition to sleep, and his anxiety to carry out the doctor's orders.
 
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