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run a fever
Idioms and Phrases
Also, run a temperature . Suffer from a body temperature higher than normal, as in She was running a fever so I kept her home from school . These idioms use run in the sense of “cause to move,†in this case upward. [Early 1900s]Example Sentences
In March, the pontiff spent a few days in the same hospital for intravenous antibiotic treatment of bronchitis that had caused Francis to run a fever.
Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist, uses the analogy of a fever: Think about how much worse you feel when you run a fever of 101.3 degrees Fahrenheit, 2.7 degrees above normal.
You may still run a fever and experience exhaustion, a sore throat, brain fog and other symptoms.
You may still run a fever and experience body aches, brain fog and other symptoms.
Reingold said there is a concern that people may be less inclined to show up for the second, required dose of a vaccine if they experience fatigue and run a fever after the first one.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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