strangling angel of children
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From being a childhood disease that causes suffocation of children when it creates biofilms in the lungs that prevent air from being exchanged with the blood.
Noun[edit]
the strangling angel of children
- (poetic) The disease diphtheria.
Usage notes[edit]
- Commonly said to be archaic, but first appears in writing around the 21st century.