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bug off
Idioms and Phrases
Also, bugger off . Go away, as in Bug off before I call the police . Both terms are often used as an imperative, as in the example, and the variant is heard more in Britain than in America. [ Slang ; c. 1900] For a synonym, see buzz off .Example Sentences
Keyan Harvey developed necrotising fasciitis, a flesh-eating bug off the back of having chicken pox when he was six.
If you want something more on the nose, you can go to Lehigh Valley Zoo in Pennsylvania to get truly primal, where the “Bug Off†fundraiser will name crickets after an ex for $5, sure.
When “Bug Off is just not enough … you can bid to name a carcass in honor of your ex, and we’ll feed it to our Mexican Grey Wolves,†they promise.
“I told you to bug off, before I do you a hard one.â€
Whipped up his notebook, picked himself a bug off the floor, then launched that little critter right into Katia Mavchek’s hair.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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