Name: English Tutor Nick P Idioms (255) Be Bitten by The Bug or Have the Something Bug
Uploaded: 2019-07-01T16:21:53.000Z
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and  this is Idioms 255. The idiom today is to be

bitten by the bug or to have the bug or have the bug for something. Okay. Let's

Basic passive voice

take a look at the note here. If someone is bitten by the bug,  he or she is very

excited or very interested in something.  We often say someone has been bitten by

the something bug. Okay. Let's take a look at ...  Let's continue here. The idea alludes

to that it is like someone got bitten by a bug that made them addicted to

something. So once you got bitten by it,  you can't help yourself anymore. So

that's kind of like the idea behind it. All right. Let's look at several examples

here. Example number one. Her son got bitten by the travel bug.  That's a

common one. We often say the travel bug. He likes to take as many backpacking

trips as he can. So he became a backpacker. Maybe he did one trip and

then he came back and he saved money did another trip and did another trip and

another trip. We say somebody got to travel  bug. Well that's a common one. It

doesn't have to be backpacking too. It could be anything with travel. If

somebody really just fell in love with traveling and they you know,  every year

they plan at least the one or two trips to go traveling somewhere that they cut

the travel bug. They can't get rid of it.  All right.Let's look at number two. Her

daughter has been bitten by the rap dancing bug. The only thing she wants to

do is learn and practice more dance ... rap dancing moves. Yeah. So she got the

rap dancing bug or the last one you know,  we could reverse it.

Another way you could say,  Jack has the bug for extreme sports or he has an

extreme sports bug too. You can also say it that way. Every weekend he loves nothing

more than to go skydiving , mountain climbing , bungee jumping,  etc . So and any

one of them. But he really he's really into that high that natural high of the

extreme sport. So he's got a bug for it.  That's the way we could say it . Okay.

Anyway I hope you got it . I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.