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snug as a bug in a rug
Idioms and Phrases
Very cozy and comfortable, as in During the blizzard we had plenty of firewood and stayed in the cottage, snug as a bug in a rug . This expression, thought to allude to a moth larva happily feeding inside a rolled-up carpet, was first recorded in 1769 and probably owes its long life to the rhyme.Example Sentences
Yes, I may look like a nut inside my home, but I’m as snug as a bug in a rug.
As the saying goes, keep them snug as a bug in a rug.
It’s shaped to make Fido or Fida feel snug as a bug in a rug, by imitating the secure feeling dogs get when they burrow into dirt, or your dirty laundry pile.
“We’ll be as snug as a bug in a rug in here, won’t we?”
I’ll tuck you all up ‘snug as a bug in a rug,’” urged Jean.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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