jungle fever
Example Sentences
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One child, repeating a phrase she learned at home, told me my mother had “jungle fever,” because she was one of the white ladies who liked Black men.
From New York Times
Welsh, a Purple Heart recipient, was wounded twice and survived both malaria and a jungle fever in three island campaigns.
From Washington Times
It is not the enemy they need to fear, but the hot climate and the jungle fever, which will be more deadly than the kris of the Malay.
From Project Gutenberg
The whole business is extremely risky, it requires a manager, immune to jungle fever, a man of great vigour yet patient and tactful.
From Project Gutenberg
He has been through the same thing with an Indian jungle fever, and has never got the calomel out of him....
From Project Gutenberg
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