a nasty complaint

a nasty complaint
   venereal disease
   It might seem to suggest having a rotten cold, or telling the waiter there's a hair in your soup:
    After a business trip to the Middle East, Brown found he was suffering from a nasty complaint. (Private Eye, February 1989)

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