Typhoid Mary
idiomPart oftyphoid
Typhoid Mary — idiom
1. a person who spreads something harmful or unpleasant without showing symptoms th
1.idiom
Definition
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
Example
The journalist called the factory owner a Typhoid Mary for refusing to fix the leaky pipes that spread disease through the town.