noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a plague of rats/locusts etc
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From Tracy Luv to Sarah-Lou, Corrie kids are as well-behaved as a plague of locusts.
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I wonder what really causes a plague of rats?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Churchill's biographer refers to the years before the Second World War as the locust years.
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Control has often centred on powerful organochlorine pesticides, which kill the locusts but can then damage the environment.
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Growing close to the house was a gnarled locust tree.
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I first saw it in the locust on the dry ridges, about twenty years ago.
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Perhaps nets were hung over windows and doorways in the temples to keep out birds, and possibly dragon-flies and locusts.
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Swarms of locusts have been reported in 15 provinces.
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The yellow locust is another matter entirely.
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They resembled a horde of human locusts.