| 单词 | to have a bug in one's ear |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have (also get) a bug in one's ear P2. to have (also get) a bug in one's ear: to be obsessed or strongly influenced by a particular idea, plan, etc., esp. one that is unrealistic or irrational. ΚΠ 1876 World (N.Y.) 28 Sept. 2/5 A meeting of the depositors of the Bond Street Savings Bank was held..in the Bowery, last night...One speaker addressed the meeting in a feeble voice, amid cries of 'Shut up', 'You have got a bug in your ear', 'This is a packed meeting.' &c. 1901 J. Habermehl Life on Western Rivers 209 Thus I got a bug in my ear not to hire out unless under a special contract in the presence of witnesses. 1941 Boilermakers Jrnl. Apr. 112/1 So many welders doing a general run of maintenance work soon get to feel they are class A welders. They get a bug in their ear. 1993 J. Agee Strange Angels (1994) xvi. 217 Inez has a bug in her ear about something. 2008 M. J. Miller Outside looking In xv. 375 Ordinarily a good and balanced critic of television, he seems to have had a bug in his ear when it came to this show. < as lemmas |
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