| 单词 | blue-arsed fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue-arsed fly blue-arsed fly n. colloquial (in similative phrases, with reference to the bluebottle) something seemingly engaged in constant, frantic activity or movement; esp. in to run around like a blue-arsed fly (cf. earlier blue-assed fly n.). ΚΠ 1936 C. Cumberledge Master Mariner x. 88 I don't suppose we were much more than half an hour at the job, thanks to a great extent to the cheerfulness and activity of Mani,..who was here, there and everywhere, working like a trojan and dancing about like a blue-arsed fly in a strange roundhouse. 1949 W. Granville Sea Slang 20th Cent. at Flap around What is the matter with him, he's been flapping around like a blue-arsed fly all the forenoon? 1970 Times 22 Apr. 7/3 The Duke of Edinburgh..asked a photographer if he was getting enough pictures... ‘You have been running around like a blue-arsed fly.’ 1987 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 20 Feb. 3 I'm always as busy as a blue-arsed fly anyway. 2000 N. Griffiths Grits (2001) 61 Runnin round Aber trine t'get rid like a blue-arsed fuckin fly. < as lemmas |
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