'A Bug In Your Ear'

Idiom: Put a bug in your ear

Idiom Definitions for 'Put a bug in your ear'

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If you put a bug in someone's ear, you give him or her a reminder or suggestion relating to a future event.

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Let me tell you that having a bug in your ear reminds you that you have a bug in your ear. If you have to have a bug in your ear, a winged bug is the way to go. Periodicity.

Winged bugs bat their wings periodically.

Alas. I had a winged bug in my ear. 

Ah. In retrospect, I remember knowing about sound-- why the beating of the wings sounded like it was inside my head. It's because of the way the alimentary canal is structured.

Thank the Good Lord Almightly that I have taught my child'en well. They flushed my ear with cold water and LOOK! There it went.

This was one one the most bizarre sensory experiences I've ever had-- and I grew up in the 70s.