Typhoid Mary

成語所屬單字typhoid

Typhoid Mary — 慣用語

1. a person who spreads something harmful or unpleasant without showing symptoms th

1.慣用語
釋義

a person who spreads something harmful or unpleasant without showing symptoms themselves, from the real-life case of Mary Mallon, a cook who unknowingly spread typhoid in the early 1900s in New York

例句

The journalist called the factory owner a Typhoid Mary for refusing to fix the leaky pipes that spread disease through the town.