[bagster]

Are you equally agribated that a vacation is going on holiday???

As a matter of fact, I am.

"While I was on holiday, I fell off the trolley and wound up in hospital. Chin chin and all that rot."

By God limeys!!!

[gov_bean_ counter]

LIL!!!

[Riflema]

Well, I hate how Yanks refer to it with the definite article. Like there's only one hospital, "THE" hospital.

In this context, it means a condition, not a geographic location, as in "in bed". We would not say (WJC excluded) "in a bed" would we?