I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flu virus/bug
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the spread of the flu virus
a stomach bug (= an illness you have caught that affects your stomach )
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He's off work with a stomach bug.
insect/mosquito/bug etc repellent
lightning bug
tummy bug/upset British English (= an illness of the stomach that makes you vomit )
water bug
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bite
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They sleep six to a bed and wake up to the fiery sting of bug bites .
flu
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United have just about shaken off the flu bug and are back to more or less full strength.
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Unfortunately, although a good time was had by all, a number of the team picked up a strange flu bug .
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Unfortunately a flu bug attacked most of the crew during this week which clouded our impressions of Shetland.
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Only replacement back Kenny Logan was an absentee, confined to bed suffering from the 24-hour flu bug .
lightning
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This is why I had children: because of the lightning bugs .
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There was movement in the trees, wind, or were those birds? Lightning bugs lifted out of the grass.
repellent
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Sam has bug repellent all over him.
stomach
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Could it be just a particularly nasty stomach bug that was taking its sweet time about leaving?
travel
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The travel bug had truly taken a firm hold.
■ VERB
catch
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Craig, 26, said doctors did disclose that Kane had caught a bug and antibiotics were not working.
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And when pyramid schemes began to appear in the last few years, nearly everyone caught the bug .
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Thanks to specially-adapted boats many new people have been catching the sailing bug .
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I never knew this until he said it, but I suppose he saw some of my performances and caught the bug .
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Beyster caught the science bug while growing up in Detroit.
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Life before Joan Freely caught the art bug seemed ideal.
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He loved catching bugs in jars and would peer in through the glass, mesmerized, to watch them scurry about.
find
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First, you find bugs or a part of a plant or interesting things such as onion skin or hair.
get
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Six out of 10 travellers get a tummy bug abroad.
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She got the bug when she was 4 years old.
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Bill got the orchid bug from an old neighbour who encouraged him to to start breeding the plants.
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Take Kim Krushowsky, who got the jumping bug in second grade while watching a rope show at a school assembly.
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Use the ice cream. 43. Get the bug spray. 44.
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In a couple of weeks they would get the bugs out, and it would be as if no problem had existed.
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I was getting the bug myself.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be bitten by the showbiz/travel/flying etc bug
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gemima's been off school with a tummy bug this week.
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I think I've picked up the bug that's been going round the office.
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Some bug in the program meant when I typed in a letter I go a number instead.
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Some chips contained a bug that caused computers to crash frequently.
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The program suffers from some minor bugs, but is still better than the first version.
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Young schoolkids are always catching various bugs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, liquid nitrogen has a temperature of -196°C, which is enough to freeze the fur off any hardy carpet bug .
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I never knew this until he said it, but I suppose he saw some of my performances and caught the bug .
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In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months, Goldstein says; bug fixing remains.
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Learning a lesson Resistance to vancomycin already has created a smaller monster of a bug that had been virtually harmless, enterococcus.
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Or a bigger Bio2 with many more bugs and birds and berries?
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The bug , called enterococcus, lives in the nasal passages and intestines of many healthy people, causing no harm.
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The collecting bug often bites early.
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Within years their cotton plants were decimated by a tiny bug and the Sutherlands resigned themselves to a meagre living from farming.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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A sewer system make your eyes bug out .
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If only I could cruise without having my eyes bug out .
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It made so much sense to him that he started laughing, which really made his lip bug out with pain.
really
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I'd had that years, it really bugged me.
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What's really bugging you, Kenny?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It really bugs me when I can't remember someone's name.
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It really bugs me when the car behind me drives too close.
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Security agents bugged their offices and managed to get some evidence against them.
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The FBI had bugged his apartment.
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Wells was convinced the house was bugged and insisted on playing loud music while we talked.
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You know what bugs me? Getting a call from a telephone salesman right when I sit down to dinner.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And she bugs you about H. G. Wells.
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How much my responsibility for my sister bugs me.
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Wichman also prepared a training manual for prospective passengers by interviewing astronauts and cosmonauts about the things that bugged them.