A cold or similar minor ailment as experienced by a man who is regarded as exaggerating the severity of the symptoms.
Greg was off sick with man flu, according to his wife
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Some women will power through the flu, popping pills and drinking tea and disdainfully accusing any male silly enough to stay in bed as having a dose of man flu.
BTW I'm not one of these blokes that does "man flu".
It is generally believed that sufferers of man flu are exaggerating their symptoms to extract maximum sympathy from a few sniffles and force their partners to run after them with tissues, hot water bottles and painkillers.
She said: "Women tend to talk more about their feelings generally, but men, it seems, appear to vocalize more when they're sick - that's where the myth around man flu originated."
On the night I get to sit beside him I have a cold, and he has 'man flu'.
Therefore he says than men get "man flu" and women get "sniffles".
Sadly their set was shortened, as Alex was suffering from what he described as 'man flu' (!) so with a flurry of drumsticks and a crash of falling cymbals it was all over, too soon.
I have sometimes been accused in the past of suffering from "man flu" - a flu virus that appears to hit men much harder than women.
Only this morning, I received a message from my partner, thanking me for caring for him during his brave battle with man flu.
On the other hand, though - and any woman who has had to nurse her partner through a bout of 'man flu' can attest to this - men are less likely to suffer in silence.