Meaning
To feel a sickness coming on — that heavy, achy, run-down feeling when a cold, flu, or fever is setting in. 'Mi body a come dung' means I feel like I'm getting sick, the first warning ache and weariness before an illness takes hold, a signal to rest and take a bush tea to head it off. The phrase names that unmistakable sense of the body beginning to fail and go down under a coming sickness, and it belongs to the everyday talk of health, ailments, and the folk remedies reached for at the first sign.
Examples
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Mi body a come dung, mi feel achy an weak.
I feel a sickness coming on, I feel achy and weak.
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Bwile some fever grass, mi body a come dung.
Boil some fever grass, I feel a cold coming on.
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Since yesideh mi body come dung pon mi.
Since yesterday I've been coming down with something.
Origin
A descriptive Patois phrase — the 'body coming down' (being brought low) as an illness sets in.
How it’s used
Means feeling the onset of illness (cold/flu/fever); prompts rest and a bush tea. See [[fever-grass]], [[cerasee]].