The doctor explained to Jenkins that he had a serious ailment for which an operation was absolutely imperative.
The patient turned pale and asked, "Isn’t it very dangerous?"
"Yes," the doctor replied. "Five out of six who undergo this operation die, but as for you, you have nothing to worry about."
"Why not?" eagerly inquired the patient.
"Well, you’re sure to recover because my last five patients died," the doctor reassured him.
baby n. Baby with a blue complexion due to a congenital heart defect.
- blood n. Noble birth.
- book n. Report issued by parliament or the privy council.
- cheese n. Cheese with veins of blue mould.
- funk n. Colloq. Terror or panic.
- peter n. Blue flag with a white square flown by a ship about to leave port.
- rinse n. Bluish dye for grey hair.
- tit n. Common tit with a blue crest.
- whale n. Rorqual, the largest known living mammal.
- —adj. (bluer, bluest) 1 having the colour of a clear sky.
- sad, depressed.
- pornographic (a blue film).
- politically conservative. —n. - blue colour or pigment.
- blue clothes or material (dressed in blue).
- person who represents a university in a sport, esp. Oxford or cambridge.
- conservative party supporter. —v. (blues, blued, bluing or blueing) 1 make blue.
- slang squander. once in a blue moon very rarely. Out of the blue unexpectedly. [french from germanic]
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