syndrome Идиома

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pre-menstrual syndrome

emotional crises the week before menstruation, pms Judy says pms causes most of her personal problems.

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China syndrome|China|syndrome

n., informal From the title of the movie with Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon. The possibility that an industrial nuclear reactor might explode, literally affecting the other side of the planet (as if by eating a hole through the earth all the way to China.) Antinuclear demonstrators are greatly worried about the China syndrome.

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Vietnam syndrome|syndrome|vietnam

n., informal An attitude in government circles that diplomacy may be more effective in solving local political problems in other countries than the use of military force, stemming from the failure of the U.S. military intervention in Vietnam. The pundits of Foggy Bottom display the Vietnam syndrome these days when it comes to Iran.