bug off
Example Sentences
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Keyan Harvey developed necrotising fasciitis, a flesh-eating bug off the back of having chicken pox when he was six.
From BBC • Nov. 14, 2023
So bug off and go read the New Yorker if you crave more precise and correct use of the language.
From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2019
We tell them their body is their own, and they get good at telling even parents to bug off when they don’t feel like being held or kissed.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2018
“It was time for me to bug off rather than becoming that grumpy old dude trying to stop change.”
From New York Times • May 18, 2016
Whipped up his notebook, picked himself a bug off the floor, then launched that little critter right into Katia Mavchek’s hair.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
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