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Put a bug in someone's ear.
To impart useful information to another in a subtle, discreet way.Riding an elephant to catch grasshoppers.
Using a sledge hammer to crack a nutShe thinks she's the bee's knees.
She has a very high opinion of herself.She's cute as a bug's ear.
She's got ants in her pants.
A state of restless impatience.Sit on a wasp's nest and say 'God wills it!'.
Small termites collapse the roof.
Snug as a bug in a rug.
Feeling very comfortable.Stir up an ant's nest.
Take not a musket and kill a butterfly.
Don't use more force than is necessary.Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
Bradley MillarTemple dogs are always looking for a place with no fleas, not realising they are carrying them with them as they go.
Termites live underground.
The ambitious one makes friends with the elephant, then tramples upon the ant.
The ant crept forth to her daily toil, the butterfly fluttered and basked in the warm rays of the sun; myriads of insects spread their transparent wings, and revelled in their brief but happy existence. Man walked forth, elated with the scene; and all was brightness and splendour.
Charles DickensSource: The Pickwick Papers
The barmaid was friendly. She wore butterfly glasses and a beehive hairdo.
Bill BrysonSource: Lost Continent
The bee stays not in a hive that has no honey.
The bee that makes the honey doesn't stand around the hive, and the man who makes the money has to worry, work, and strive.
The bee works all summer and eats honey all winter.
The bee's knees.
An excellent or the best person or thing.The bees make honey but cannot eat it; the sea-swallows build nests but cannot live in them.
The beetle is a beauty in the eyes of its mother.
The beetle is a bride in the arms of its mother.
The best way to put an end to the bugs is to set fire to the bed.
The better the fruit, the more wasps to eat it.
The big fish eat the little fish, the little fish eat the water-insects, and the water-insects eat the weeds and mud.
The biting fly gets nothing by alighting on the back of the tortoise.
The biting fly has no one to come to his aid in trouble.
The brave flea dares to eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
The busy fly is in every man's dish.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath TagoreThe butterfly often forgets it once was a caterpillar.
The butterfly that flies among the thorns will tear its wings.
The butterfly that settles on a branch is afraid that he will break it.
The buzzing of the flies does not turn them into bees.
The constant creeping of ants will wear away the stone.
The cricket cries, the year changes.
The death throes of an elephant are not so annoying as a living flea.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark TwainThe dog in the doghouse barks at his fleas, the dog that hunts does not feel them.
The drone bee dies soon after the wedding night.
The dung beetle, seeing its child on the wall, thinks it sees a pearl on a thread.
The eagle does not catch flies.
The eagle does not feed on flies.
The earth does not shake when the flea coughs.
The eyeless ant asked God: 'Give me eye-lashes'.
The fangs of the green snake and the sting of a wasp don't really make poison; that is only to be found in a woman's heart.
The fatter the flea, the leaner the dog.
The flight of the eagle will not stop that of the sand fly.
The fly does not kill, but it does spoil.
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