| 单词 | put a bug in someone's ear |
| 释义 | put a bug in someone's earGive someone a hint about something, as in Janet put a bug in her husband's ear about getting the children a dog for Christmas. This idiom presumably likens the buzzing about of an insect to a hint, although the exact analogy is not clear. [c. 1900] Words nearby put a bug in someone's earpustulosis, pustulosis palmaris et plantaris, pustulous, put, put about, put a bug in someone's ear, put across, put a damper on, put all one's eggs in one basket, putamen, put-and-take 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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