Meaning of on the Pat and Mick | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Sick; out of commission due to being unwell.
   Cockney, slang
2. Alternative letter-case form of on the Pat and Mick.
   alt-of

Examples

“Things are very different when you are off on the sick. . . . For a start, when you are on the Pat and Mick you no longer go to work.”

“I'm on the pat and mick at the mo. Only went to town to see my mother off on the train, as she'd come down for the weekend to cheer me up.”

“While lifting the SD1's battery the handle came off. . . . [I]t then bounced and landed on my foot—good job I was wearing my toetectors otherwise I would have spent Christmas on the pat and mick.”

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