Citations:man flu

English citations of man flu

2007 November 8, Claudia Winkleman, “Oh no, we’ve entered the months of man flu…”, Belfast Telegraph
I realised that my son is only 20 years away from man flu.

He has boy flu right now, and I’m not going to help his future girlfriends. […] I’ve sent him to school, and the older one has been forced out and back to the office. Who’s to blame for man flu? Uh, we are.
2007 November 9, Nick Peet, “Vodka and spandex don’t mix”, Liverpool Echo
the entire Adams Family dropped by — minus Uncle Fester who cried off with man flu
2007 November 10, Tamsin Kelly, “It’s not a cold, it’s man flu”, The Telegraph
Not when he can demand chicken soup, take his own temperature obsessively […] and subside on to the sofa emitting loud woe-is-me groans surrounded by an ever increasing mountain of balled-up tissues. […] Man flu.
2007 November 21, Catherine Vonledebur (reporter), “Grateful family’s hospital tribute”, The Coventry Telegraph
My wife, who is an A&E nurse, said: ‘You’ve got man flu’. But when I started hallucinating she took me straight to hospital.
2007 November 29, Justin Moorhouse, “From M*A*S*H… to man flu”, Manchester Evening News
So, the moment she senses her man may be off the hunter-gatherer agenda for a couple of days, it kicks in — the threat of the “man-flu” accusation.

2007 November 20, Stephen Walker, “7 days to save a life”, Scotsman.com
Within half an hour I feel like I’ve been repeatedly kicked in the back and pelvis. Much worse than Man Flu, I tell myself.
2007 November 25, Eamonn Holmes, “Told you I was ill dear”, The People.co.uk
I know what to put on the headstone when I eventually do go. “It wasn’t Man Flu after all.”

2007 November 17, Sara Hawthorn, “It’s no crime to be sick”, The Press (York)
Not that I’m feeling sorry for myself — not that much anyway. It’s not like I’ve got the man-flu or anything.
2012, Sarah Morgan, St. Piran's: Prince on the Children's Ward, Harlequin (2012), →ISBN, page 32:
'I have to warn you, I'm not much of a nurse, Josh. I'm good with kids but moaning adults with man-flu drive me up the wall. I just want to tell them to pull themselves together.'