The phrase "a winter of discontent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a period of dissatisfaction or unrest, often in a political or social context.
Example: "The citizens expressed their frustration during what many referred to as a winter of discontent, as protests erupted across the nation."
Alternatives: "a season of discontent" or "an era of dissatisfaction".
"Through a fall that was literally a fall, I came from a winter of discontent to a spring of renewal," he said.
Gordon Brown was warned by union leaders yesterday that the government faces a winter of discontent in the public sector unless it relaxes its tough stance on pay.
Sir Edward Heath's government lost the 1974 election owing to a real failure of policy; and in 1979 a sea of troubles and a winter of discontent led to the Callaghan government losing that election.
Morgan Tsvangirai, the party's founder, has been saying since March that mass action is in the works, predicting a "winter of discontent".
Dublin is braced for a "winter of discontent" after it slashed spending and public-sector pay last week, including unemployment benefit.
The government is to hold down public-sector pay increases to about 2% over the next three years, provoking the fury of trade unions, which have already been threatening a "winter of discontent" unless the government relaxes pay norms in the next round of negotiations.
-- "Trump creates a summer of discontent for Republican candidates," by Michael Scherer and Josh Dawsey: "It has been a common pattern this summer for House Republican candidates around the country: Trump sparks local and national controversies around issues of trade, immigration and foreign policy that throw many of the most vulnerable House incumbents for a loop.
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So could Europe be set for a new financial crisis and will the continent suffer a summer of discontent? Bill Blaine is a strategist at Mint Partners.
And given its own deep unpopularity with the Iranian public, the government may yet face a winter of domestic discontent.
Still, the tax burden on the wealthier strata of society remains minuscule in comparison with the egalitarian social democracies of northern Europe and, if the Arab democratic spring is not to turn into a winter of economic discontent, then the haves need to do more to empower the have-nots.
