potato bug
chiefly North American
noun
1(More fully old-fashioned potato bug) a blister beetle of the genus Epicauta.
2(More fully new potato-bug) the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata.
Origin
Late 18th century.
- likely-looking
- like mad
- like magic
- like-minded
- like-mindedness
- liken
- likeness
- like nobody's business
- like nothing on earth
- like (or for) grim death
- like peas (or two peas) in a pod
- like pulling teeth
- Likert scale
- like shit
- like shooting fish in a barrel
- like sin
- like so
- like stink
- like that
- like the cat that got (or stole) the cream
- like the clappers
- like the deuce
- like the devil
- like the wind
- like turkeys voting for Christmas