Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
green-bottle fly .
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Examples
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Then he takes their perfectly good green-bottle beer and gives it to the goat, which the alleged perp feels is an insult.
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On the riverbank fishermen had left smelly fish heads that were covered with buzzing green-bottle flies.
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule Harriette Gillem Robinet 1998
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On the riverbank fishermen had left smelly fish heads that were covered with buzzing green-bottle flies.
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule Harriette Gillem Robinet 1998
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Huge green-bottle flies hovered over the still-smoking ravines and gullies, open wounds on the land itself.
Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996
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Huge green-bottle flies hovered over the still-smoking ravines and gullies, open wounds on the land itself.
Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996
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His loving spouse 'rowed in the same boat' -- and the 'little green-bottle' was dispatched several times during the days of their Saturnalia, to be replenished at the never-failing fountain of the 'Shepherd and Flock.'
Sketches — Complete Robert Seymour 1818
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His loving spouse 'rowed in the same boat' -- and the 'little green-bottle' was dispatched several times during the days of their Saturnalia, to be replenished at the never-failing fountain of the 'Shepherd and Flock.'
Sketches — Volume 05 Robert Seymour 1818
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And I'll bet you a six-pack of green-bottle beer that in the years to come, he gets less trouble from guys like me than from his own left wing.
Atlanticville 2008
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