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"There is now a real danger that the heart attack the British economy suffered has made us the sick man of Europe, " he said.

Germany, by contrast, derided a decade ago as the sick man of Europe, is being held up as a model, at least when it comes to jobs.

Once known as the "sick man of Asia, " China is no longer Ill.

From that highpoint, it declined until it became known as the "sick man of Europe" by the late 1800s.

This time we'll get the benefit of our past measures and there won't be any talk of us being the sick man of Europe.

Stupefied by opium, cowed by Western firepower, China was dismissed at the outset of the 20th century as the "sick man of Asia. "

By 1911, Japan was a great power and China was the sick man of Asia.

Of the "sick man of East Asia, " 's shadow, has long been destroyed, no longer exists.

The doctor cured the sick man of his disease.

Concerned about the future, do not let the'sick man of Asia 'tragedy happen again in the world.

Yet historians recall how the Ottoman empire, for many years "the sick man of Europe" , crumbled to dust after the first world war.

We are no longer a foreigner in the eyes of the "sick man of Asia" , but the East has become a giant lion.

A decade ago Germany was the "sick man of Europe. "

Yet Pax Niponica never got past the early 1990s; one former inevitable global hegemon has been downgraded to the sick man of Asia.

When we were labeled the 'sick man of Asia, ' we were called a peril.

When we were the Sick Man of Asia.

When we were the sick man of Asia, we were called the yellow peril.