OOOOh Bev, I am a lot older than you...... if you don't know that saying.
Lynn a bit of ice cream should help. I refuse to think about those ........ anymore.
I did have to google it to be sure I was using the correct idiom
"The flesh under or about the human chin or jaws is often called the gills (nearly always in the plural). Sometimes the word stands alone, but far more frequent is its use in a cluster of well-known figurative phrases.
Since at least the 1600s, the word has been used with various color names to indicate a person's physical health or state of mind. Beginning in the Middle Ages, English folklore ascribed certain colors to certain physical or mental conditions: blue for depressed or affected with anxiety, green for sickly (as in the pale green color indicating nausea), red for angry (as if the face were flushed with blood), rosy for healthy (as in "rosy cheeks"), white for pale from fear or illness, and yellow for diseased (as in the hue of jaundice).
The resulting gill expressions included to be blue/white/yellow about the gills, meaning to look dejected or in ill health; to be rosy about the gills, meaning to look in good health; and to turn red in the gills, meaning to show anger or indignation. Today the most common version of this pattern is to be green about (or in) the gills, meaning to be ill, especially with nausea. In the United States, the expression is usually to be green around the gills."
http://voices.yahoo.com/green-...
Hope I don't dream about this stuff tonight
