British disease
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"It's a British disease - we validate success by the exit rather than achievement of the business."
From BBC • May 31, 2017
In their very different ways, Cusk and Macdonald both admirably resist succumbing to the very British disease of self-deprecation, while also skirting any temptation to present an easily likeable literary persona.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 23, 2014
But the British disease could be embedded to the extent that a bubble is inevitable without more far-reaching reforms to a tax system that already encourages speculation in property.
From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2013
Those who ran television, he said, were "part of the British disease", hostile to markets and competition.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2013
Even those put off by the glitz and the greed of Thatcherworld wouldn't really like to return to the gloomy, hangdog "British disease" atmosphere of the postwar period.
From Time Magazine Archive
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