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put a bug in someone's ear
put a bug in someone's ear
Give someone a hint about something, as in Janet put a bug in her husband's ear about getting the children a dog for Christmas. This idiom presumably likens the buzzing about of an insect to a hint, although the exact analogy is not clear. [c. 1900]
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Demeter (2) | | - | Hungarian |
| Deepti | | - | Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada |
| Hesiod | | HES-ee-əd (English), HEE-see-əd (English) | Ancient Greek (Anglicized) |
| Tancred | | TANG-krid (English) | Old Norman |
| JÔNatas | | - | Portuguese |
| Hooda | | - | Arabic |