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when (something) sneezes, (something else) catches a cold

When a person, group, or entity has a problem or experiences a negative situation, a related person, group, or entity will consequently have a worse problem or will experience a more negative situation. When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold. Terrorism in France affects security throughout the continent.
See also: catch, cold

when the US/UK/China, etc. sneezes, Japan/Germany, etc. catches cold

or

when the US/UK/China, etc. sneezes, Japan/Germany, etc. catches a cold

mainly BRITISH
If you say that when a particular country sneezes, another catches cold, or catches a cold, you mean that what happens to the first country has a great effect or influence on the second. And when the American economy sneezes, the City of London catches cold. As they say, when America sneezes the rest of the world catches a cold.
See also: catch, cold, japan, UK
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To what extent is this dichotomy in the German system sustainable, for both Germany and Europe?
Are German workers killing Europe? In other words, have their low relative wages created a "beggar-thy-neighbor real devaluation"* policy highly destabilizing to the Eurozone?
Germany had been selected to host the 1936 Olympics in 1931, when it had a democratic government known as the Weimar (VY-mahr) Republic, installed after Germany's defeat in World War I.
1936: the 'Nazi Olympics': three years before World War II, Adolf Hitler turned the Berlin Games into a tense spectacle designed to showcase 'Aryan superiority'
Hadid and Stirling are by no means the only 'britischer Architekten' to thrive in Germany.
Good hosts: we consider the effects of Germany's willingness to be a receptive host for the ambitions of foreign architects
I would like to offer new interpretations of the strength and peculiarities of Liberalism in Germany by introducing the term Popular Liberalism, hitherto usually applied to a pattern of political behavior in mid and late 19th-century Britain.
"Long live Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and Dynamite:" (1) the German bourgeoisie and the constructing of popular liberal and national-socialist subcultures in marginal Germany
A 61-year-old man was bitten by a tick at Lake Woblitz, near the town of Neustrelitz in former East Germany, on May 31, 2004, between 8:00 a.
Tickborne meningoencephalitis, first case after 19 years in Northeastern Germany
Troester GmbH of Germany applied the four-motor CMG direct drive in a creative fashion on a rubber extruder--using only three of the four motors to drive the 90-mm screw and the fourth to power the rubber feed roll.
Extruder outputs rise, downstream units gain flexibility
Germany hasn't been ticking for years in its famously precise, Black Forest cuckoo-clock way.
Germany's moment of truth: can the largest economy in Europe remain competitive?
Oct 1936, Glasgow (f): SCOTLAND 2 (Delaney 2), Germany 0.
FOOTBALL: SCOTLAND V GERMANY
Oct 1936, Glasgow: SCOTLAND 2-0 Germany (Friendly) (Delaney 2)
Football: Scotland v Germany: Previous results
At the end of World War II in 1945, Hitler's Germany was defeated and occupied by the Allied Powers--the U.
Germany: Philipp and Eda live in Berlin, a thriving European city that divided East from West during the Cold War. (World)
1996 (EC) England 1 Germany 1, Wembley, (Eng lost 5-6 on pens)
Football: ENGLAND v GERMANY
Not even Ludwig Erhard succeeded in doing that later in post-war Western Germany.
Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris
While it has been generally accepted that the Palestinian leader Hajj Amin al-Husayni turned toward Germany as a result of British intransigence in pursuing the Jewish national home (JNH) policy and the employment of brutal and harsh measures to suppress the Palestinian revolt of 1936-39, Lewis wrote that "as far back as 1933, immediately after Hitler's accession to power, the British-appointed Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husayni, made contact with the German consul to declare his support and offer his help.
The Arabs and the Axis: 1933-1940
Although access is universal in Germany and Holland, waiting times for certain elective procedures is quite long in these two countries - 3 years for elective cataract surgery in Holland, and 6 weeks for elective angiography and 4 weeks for elective heart surgery in Germany.
Study tour examines health care systems in Germany, Holland
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