English disease
Meaning
Proper Noun
- Football (soccer) hooliganism
- Depression (especially suicidal)
- Hypochondria
- Sweating sickness
- Gout
- Rickets
- Syphilis
- Bronchitis
- Tuberculosis
- Laziness, low motivation
- Poor industrial relations, and the resulting economic weakness
- Masochism, especially a fondness for flagellation
- Gambling
- Haemophilia
- Homosexuality
Origin
- A calque of phrases from various languages, including the French maladie anglaise, Polish angielska choroba, and the German englische Krankheit.
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