dust bunnies
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You don’t have to say, “You are manipulative and controlling,” or “You are high maintenance and don’t pay your way,” or, in this case, “You leave a trail of dust bunnies in your wake.”
From MarketWatch • Feb. 6, 2026
Weird Barbie, you might be buried outside, on the shelf at Goodwill, or even still at home, tucked away under years of accumulated dust bunnies and unidentifiable insects.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2023
Entire rooms never got used and developed colonies of dust bunnies.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2022
But she was possessed of an uncanny ability, as Washington Post book reviewer Maureen Corrigan once observed, to find “the dust bunnies under her employers’ couches as well as the skeletons in their closets.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2020
No matter how many times Percy killed them and watched them crumble to powder, they just kept re-forming like large evil dust bunnies.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
