Which preposition to use with flea
I sent him away "with a flea in his lug," as the man described it afterwards.
''Tis well written,' he said, 'and good verses enough, but he who put them together for a spell knew little how to keep off evil spirits, for this would not keep a flea from a black cat.
Barbro cannot help smiling, and being not unused to acting under critical circumstances, she flicks off the flea at once.
But here's the trouble: when you make over your house to an outsider, maybe it'll stick to him, like a flea to a soldier.
He was a "fundi" at taking out jiggers, and sat for hours at the feet of our foot-soldiers; quickly adopting an air of authority that occasionally brought him swift blows from East African troopers, who do not tolerate easily such airs in a native, he produced the unbroken jigger flea with unfailing regularity and prescribed the pail of disinfectant in which the tortured feet were soaked.
He adds, that he destroyed the fleas of his puppies by once bathing them in warm water impregnated with oil of turpentine.
to brood, Or quack, to feed like fleas on human blood? FRIEND.
Information was laid that some persons were plotting against Claudius, but in the majority of instances he paid no attention, saying: "It doesn't do to adopt the same defensive tactics against a flea as against a beast of prey."
And so to sleep, as far as the crowing of many cocks outside and the activity of multitudinous fleas within would permit; and to make sure of us, we were locked infairly at last in a Turkish prison.
Real estate agents are as thick as fleas around that section.
A British official assured me they were "good blokes" and an Armenian told me they could skin fleas for their hides and tallow; but the Armenian was wearing a good suit, and eating good food, which he admitted had been given to him by the American Colony.
There is not a single one of us who does not think that he understands everything, from strategy to picking the fleas off a dog, better than professionals who have devoted their lives to it.
The room, although it was dirty, was cheerful; for the sunshine streamed in through the open window, and the view of the green valley beneath and the woods beyond soon drove the fleas out of mind.
He had rather have an iron chain hung about the neck of a flea than an alderman's of gold, and Homer's Iliads in a nutshell than Alexander's cabinet.
"A man might as well," says Lincoln, "undertake to throw fleas across the barnyard with a shovel.