news bee
US and Caribbean informal
noun
Any large or noticeable insect, typically a bumblebee, a beetle, or a hoverfly, whose appearance in a house or around a person is supposed, in popular folklore, to indicate that news of some kind will soon arrive.
Origin
1930s.
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