summer complaint

Related to summer complaint: Campylobacter

summer complaint(s)

euphemism, obsolete Any severe gastrointestinal infection, but especially food poisoning or cholera, typically contracted by children in the summertime. Mary has a bit of the summer complaint, so she has taken to bed for the rest of the week. Before personal hygiene and food safety practices became commonplace, children became ill and died from what adults rather flippantly called summer complaints.

summer complaint

n. diarrhea, especially that experienced in the summer. I’ve got a touch of the summer complaint.

词组	summer complaint
释义	summer complaint Related to summer complaint: Campylobacter summer complaint(s) euphemism, obsolete Any severe gastrointestinal infection, but especially food poisoning or cholera, typically contracted by children in the summertime. Mary has a bit of the summer complaint, so she has taken to bed for the rest of the week. Before personal hygiene and food safety practices became commonplace, children became ill and died from what adults rather flippantly called summer complaints. See also: summer Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. summer complaint n. diarrhea, especially that experienced in the summer. I’ve got a touch of the summer complaint. See also: complaint, summer McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions See also: complaint summer complaint(s) London a London particular maker the N-word function bodily functions between jobs between projects References in periodicals archive No summer complaints list wouldbe complete without mention of the No. Licking summer ills
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