delhi-belly

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(uncountable)

(idiomatic) Digestive illness or diarrhoea, especially if suffered by a visitor to India.

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From the diarrhoea often experienced foreign travellers to India, not specifically the city of Delhi which was probably chosen as it rhymes with belly.

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