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loaded to the gills and loaded to the barrel
Sl. intoxicated. He's loaded to the gills. Man, he's loaded to the barrel and fighting mad.
See also: loaded

pale around the gills and blue around the gills; green around the gills

Fig. looking sick. (The around can be replaced with about.) John is looking a little pale around the gills. What's wrong? Oh, I feel a little green about the gills.
See also: around, pale

be green about/around the gills  (humorous)
to look ill, as if you are going to vomit He was out drinking last night, was he? I thought he looked a bit green about the gills this morning.
See also: green


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The Taste of Bliss menu includes delectable fresh oysters in vodka shot glasses, gilled sirloin, lobster bruschetta and baked salmon.
The power roller rig would lift nets containing 15 tons of gilled kings from depths as great as 60 feet.
Tuna for processing at Uoriki is caught at sea by long-line trawlers, gilled and gutted, and then super-frozen within 30 minutes and packaged in special containers.
 
 
 
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