British disease

British  

noun

1. the pattern of strikes and industrial unrest in the 1970s and early 1980s supposed by many during this time to be endemic in Britain and to weaken the British economy

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Example Sentences

"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

This latest outbreak of the "British disease" posed the most serious threat yet to Prime Minister James Callaghan's shaky Labor government.

From Time Magazine Archive