Asian flu
noun
Figurative a weakening of Far Eastern economies, specifically the economic crisis beginning in late 1997 which adversely affected the East Asian ‘tiger’ economies (and, in 1998, the Japanese economy); (hence) the resultant global economic insecurity;.
Origin
1990s; earliest use found in Business Week.
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