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Example sentences for: pox

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3) A pox on both their houses.
In the Romanization system I learned (and a pox on Peiking/Beijing for replacing the clear with the opaque) the two characters are transliterated as mei-kuo , disregarding the tonal diacritical marks.
But it leaves me--and, polls suggest, the vast majority of my fellow Americans--wishing a pox on all their houses.
My doctor was most attentive--he even visited me at home when I came down with chicken pox--though more out of curiosity than solicitude, he admitted, adult chicken pox being so rare.
So about all I can do is wonder if Harrison Ford's weary stare would have been as weary if he reversed his word order and intoned, "Success is the pox of celebrity."