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Phrase of the day 4/19

jim_1 (Zone 5B)

5 years ago

Crazy as a bedbug

How does it happen that people say so-and-so is crazy as a bedbug? Are bedbugs any crazier than other bugs? Quite to the contrary. According to a local exterminator, he related that they are among the brightest bugs around. Ingenious, too. When one sets pots of water at each bedpost to act as sort of midnight moat, the pesky things climb to the ceiling and drop down to the bed.

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Annie Deighnaugh
5 years ago
I've not heard that expression before...crazy as a loon, yes, but not bedbug.
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