locust-killer
US (now rare )
noun
(Also locust-killer wasp) either of two large solitary wasps of North America, the cicada-killer, Sphecius speciosus, which preys on cicadas, and Prionyx thomae, which preys on grasshoppers.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in American Agriculturist.
- make haste
- make hay (while the sun shines)
- make head or tail of
- make heavy weather of
- make history
- make it a rule to do something
- make it big
- make it (or things) hot for
- make it snappy
- makeless
- make light of
- make light work of
- make like
- make little of
- make love
- Makem
- make merry
- make mincemeat of
- makemono
- make much of
- make nice (or nice-nice)
- make no bones about
- make no mistake (about it)
- make no secret of something
- make off