Definition of flea in English:
flea
noun fliːfli
A small wingless jumping insect which feeds on the blood of mammals and birds. It sometimes transmits diseases through its bite, including plague and myxomatosis.
跳蚤Order Siphonaptera: several families and many species, including the human flea (Pulex irritans)
- Fleas spread the bacteria between cats, although there is no evidence that fleas can transmit the disease to humans.
- Plague is transmitted by fleas that live on rodents.
- If you have been bitten by fleas, mites, or bedbugs you may have an infestation in your home, such as on one or more of your pets, and should try to find the infestation and get rid of it.
- In the end, I obeyed and fell into a comfortable sleep, ignoring the fleas that were jumping around me.
- Many things can lead to these hot spots including food and airborne allergens, ticks, fleas and other insect bites, and contact allergens like grass.
- Imagine my horror when I had invited the parents of a Japanese student staying with me and we were all bitten by fleas!
- He said that fleas can jump over two hundred times their own height.
- It is passed from bunny to bunny by biting insects such as the flea and mosquito so prevention of these is important.
- When rats die from the plague, the fleas that lived on them must seek out new sources of blood.
- Lice are wingless and they cannot jump, unlike fleas, but instead they spread through physical contact.
- Plague mostly affected rodents, but fleas could transmit the disease to people too.
- In some cases we have learned that an insect can cause harm, such as when we're bitten by a flea or mosquito.
- Unlike fleas, lice can't jump from person to person.
- They're so plagued by lice, fleas, dander and mange that their coats are spotted with huge bald patches and pocked with weeping sores.
- In 2002, two Gardai sued the state after being bitten by fleas in Garda stations.
- It put poison in his blood that killed fleas after one bite.
- We wished to avoid the constant and real threat of bedbugs, fleas, and other insect pests which we had brought home in our bags, topclothing, and soiled linens.
- As he walked around the lounge his boots stuck to the floor and he became aware that he was being bitten by fleas.
- This parcel contained the fleas that caused the plague.
- The disease is passed onto humans through fleas which jump from the rat when it dies.
insect, mite, midge
Phrases
(as) fit as a flea
In very good health.
非常健康- You have to be fit as a flea to take the race on, and I feel I am as fit as I could be.
- Jack's daughter Doris Lyons said: ‘My dad was as fit as a flea.’
- He's as fit as a flea but I think it really took a lot out of him.
- Some of them are as fit as a flea and going to remain as fit as a flea.
- She never talks about it and is as fit as a flea at 85.
- I feel as fit as a flea and my big tummy has gone down!
- My legs were stiff, but not as stiff as on other occasions and by the afternoon I felt as fit as a flea.
- As fit as a flea, there is no reason why he cannot make a successful transition to turf tomorrow, especially as his rating is significantly lower than the one he is now racing off on the all-weather.
- She discovered something her legion of fans have always known: when it comes to shaking her booty, the 34-year-old is one hell of a mover and fit as a flea.
muscular, muscly, sturdy, strapping, well built, powerfully built, strong, powerful, robust, able-bodied, vigorous, hardy, lusty, hearty, hale and hearty, brawny, burly, broad-shouldered, thickset, herculeana flea in one's ear
A sharp reproof.
尖锐的批评；严厉的非难she expected to be sent away with a flea in her ear她料定自己会被狗血淋头地骂走的。
- And if anybody asks when we will be having children they will go away with a flea in their ear.
- A few weeks ago at another tournament in England, such assumptions saw one mouthy opponent dispatched with a flea in his ear.
- She sent them packing with a flea in their ear of course.
- He spends the whole time looking at his watch, so Flynn sends him packing with a flea in his ear.
- ‘He was sent away with a flea in his ear,’ said one Labour backbencher.
- I mustn't have been in when he knocked on mine; he would have gone away with a flea in his ear.
- It would have been enough to send him back with a flea in his ear.
- He might give senior management a flea in their ear, but he has never claimed to be a nice guy.
- ‘But we soon send them away with a flea in their ear,’ explains Patrick.
- I was sure the mistress was going to do the same thing as Mrs. Benson and she'd be thrown out with a flea in her ear.
Origin
Old English flēa, flēah, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlo and German Floh.
The first use of flea is recorded as early as the 8th century. Fleas are jumping insects, and since the late 19th century we have used fit as a flea to describe an active, healthy person. People have been sent away with a flea in their ear since the 15th century, and the idea dates back earlier in France. The telling-off or rejection is so ‘sharp’ that it is likened to the pain of a flea bite. Flea markets (early 20th century) and fleapits (mid 20th century), or scruffy cinemas, get their names from the idea that they are places which harbour fleas.
Rhymes
absentee, açai, addressee, adoptee, agree, allottee, amputee, appellee, appointee, appraisee, après-ski, assignee, asylee, attendee, bailee, bain-marie, Bangui, bargee, bawbee, be, Bea, bee, bootee, bouquet garni, bourgeoisie, Brie, BSc, buckshee, Capri, cc, chimpanzee, cohabitee, conferee, consignee, consultee, Cree, debauchee, decree, dedicatee, Dee, degree, deportee, dernier cri, detainee, devisee, devotee, divorcee, draftee, dree, Dundee, dungaree, eau-de-vie, emcee, employee, endorsee, en famille, ennui, enrollee, escapee, esprit, evacuee, examinee, expellee, fee, fiddle-de-dee, flee, fleur-de-lis, foresee, franchisee, free, fusee (US fuzee), Gardaí, garnishee, gee, ghee, glee, goatee, grandee, Grand Prix, grantee, Guarani, guarantee, he, HMRC, indictee, inductee, internee, interviewee, invitee, jamboree, Jaycee, jeu d'esprit, key, knee, Lea, lee, legatee, Leigh, lessee, Ley, licensee, loanee, lychee, manatee, Manichee, maquis, Marie, marquee, me, Midi, mortgagee, MSc, nominee, obligee, Otomi, parolee, Parsee, parti pris, patentee, Pawnee, payee, pea, pee, permittee, plc, plea, pledgee, pollee, presentee, promisee, quay, ratatouille, referee, refugee, releasee, repartee, retiree, returnee, rupee, scot-free, scree, sea, secondee, see, settee, Shanxi, Shawnee, shchi, she, shea, si, sirree, ski, spree, standee, suttee, tant pis, tea, tee, tee-hee, Tennessee, testee, the, thee, three, thuggee, Tiree, Torquay, trainee, Tralee, transferee, tree, Trincomalee, trustee, tutee, twee, Twi, undersea, vestee, vis-à-vis, wagon-lit, Waikiki, warrantee, we, wee, whee, whoopee, ye, yippee, Zuider Zee
Definition of flea in US English:
flea
nounflēfli
1A small wingless jumping insect which feeds on the blood of mammals and birds. It sometimes transmits diseases through its bite, including plague and myxomatosis.
跳蚤Order Siphonaptera: several families and many species, including the human flea (Pulex irritans) and the cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis)
- We wished to avoid the constant and real threat of bedbugs, fleas, and other insect pests which we had brought home in our bags, topclothing, and soiled linens.
- Unlike fleas, lice can't jump from person to person.
- They're so plagued by lice, fleas, dander and mange that their coats are spotted with huge bald patches and pocked with weeping sores.
- Lice are wingless and they cannot jump, unlike fleas, but instead they spread through physical contact.
- Plague is transmitted by fleas that live on rodents.
- It put poison in his blood that killed fleas after one bite.
- Many things can lead to these hot spots including food and airborne allergens, ticks, fleas and other insect bites, and contact allergens like grass.
- In some cases we have learned that an insect can cause harm, such as when we're bitten by a flea or mosquito.
- Fleas spread the bacteria between cats, although there is no evidence that fleas can transmit the disease to humans.
- It is passed from bunny to bunny by biting insects such as the flea and mosquito so prevention of these is important.
- This parcel contained the fleas that caused the plague.
- Plague mostly affected rodents, but fleas could transmit the disease to people too.
- Imagine my horror when I had invited the parents of a Japanese student staying with me and we were all bitten by fleas!
- In the end, I obeyed and fell into a comfortable sleep, ignoring the fleas that were jumping around me.
- In 2002, two Gardai sued the state after being bitten by fleas in Garda stations.
- The disease is passed onto humans through fleas which jump from the rat when it dies.
- He said that fleas can jump over two hundred times their own height.
- If you have been bitten by fleas, mites, or bedbugs you may have an infestation in your home, such as on one or more of your pets, and should try to find the infestation and get rid of it.
- As he walked around the lounge his boots stuck to the floor and he became aware that he was being bitten by fleas.
- When rats die from the plague, the fleas that lived on them must seek out new sources of blood.
insect, mite, midge- 1.1 A water flea or daphnia.
Phrases
a flea in one's ear
A sharp reproof.
尖锐的批评；严厉的非难she expected to be sent away with a flea in her ear她料定自己会被狗血淋头地骂走的。
- ‘But we soon send them away with a flea in their ear,’ explains Patrick.
- I mustn't have been in when he knocked on mine; he would have gone away with a flea in his ear.
- I was sure the mistress was going to do the same thing as Mrs. Benson and she'd be thrown out with a flea in her ear.
- ‘He was sent away with a flea in his ear,’ said one Labour backbencher.
- He spends the whole time looking at his watch, so Flynn sends him packing with a flea in his ear.
- He might give senior management a flea in their ear, but he has never claimed to be a nice guy.
- She sent them packing with a flea in their ear of course.
- A few weeks ago at another tournament in England, such assumptions saw one mouthy opponent dispatched with a flea in his ear.
- And if anybody asks when we will be having children they will go away with a flea in their ear.
- It would have been enough to send him back with a flea in his ear.
Origin
Old English flēa, flēah, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlo and German Floh.