Re: Re: CULT: pests

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• Subject: Re: [iris] Re: CULT: pests
• From: C*@aol.com
• Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:40:39 EDT
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In a message dated 9/12/05 7:31:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
lmann@volfirst.net writes:

<< I am still bemused by the image of my long-departed pet duck riding
 around on the back of a June bug >>

Possibly some people are growing confused....

Ducks eat beetles with some avidity so the saying that So and So is going to 
come down on Someone "like a duck on a June bug" means like a duck sighting a 
June bug and snapping it up without niceties, toying about, or discussion. The 
phrase, in my experience, is generally understood to mean Someone is going to 
experience So and So's authority, or wrath. 

A similar but more abstract saying encounted with some frequencey is So and 
So is going to be "all over Someone's case like white on rice."

At Chateau Whitehall we prefer the rice with the duck, hold the bugs.

Cordially,

Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA

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