phlegmy

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- Visit throat doctor, tell him I've been a little phlegmy for, oh, about 40 years. those two new books about me.

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  • The phlegmy, eye-bulging, hysterical sobbing, moaning, wailing cry that signaled perhaps I needed a break from the whole "moving" thing.I needed to do something happy and ridiculous.
  • He inhales a lungful of smoke that goes down the wrong way and I wait for his phlegmy laughing-coughing fit to subside. —  SomethingWickedSFandHorrorMagazine#4
  • (Paediatrics) after we convinced ourselves that dudelette, suffering woefully from a virus causing a phlegmy chest, sore throat, sporadic rises in temperature and a long list of other dire symptoms, was getting worse and that she needed antibiotics immediately. —  Relaxed Parents
  • She's still horribly phlegmy but has engaged with both day and party in more of her usual style. —  Relaxed Parents
  • - Visit throat doctor, tell him I've been a little phlegmy for, oh, about 40 years. those two new books about me. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
 

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