Typhoid Mary

idiomPart oftyphoid

Typhoid Mary — idiom

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

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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.