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CTyankee

(67,986 posts) Thu Feb 20, 2014, 05:29 PM Feb 2014

for our Texans here, do you know the origins of the phrase "cute as a bug's ear"? [View all]

My mother used it and I remember it growing up in north Texas. I never really understood what was so cute about a bug's ear, but it was kind of funny...

Mother was born in El Paso and moved to Dallas where I was born. I never heard anyone else use it as I was growing up so I assumed mother had made it up. But I Googled it...and not too much turned up...

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for our Texans here, do you know the origins of the phrase "cute as a bug's ear"? [View all] CTyankee Feb 2014 OP

I don't know the origins, but bugs don't have ears notadmblnd Feb 2014 #1

that someone is attractive in a sweet way. The last time I heard her say it, she was CTyankee Feb 2014 #2

I guess that's one way to think about it. notadmblnd Feb 2014 #3

I found this on google angstlessk Feb 2014 #4

My grandma on my dads side was from Ohio sufrommich Feb 2014 #5

Yeah, the phrase is common there theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #6

I'm pretty sure it means the same thing as "finer than frog's hair". nt PassingFair Feb 2014 #7

I think that one means finer in the sense of slenderer and smaller... CTyankee Feb 2014 #9

My telephone "boyfriend" from Tennessee used to tell me that... PassingFair Feb 2014 #10

that is kinda sweet actually...altho how much would it take to be "finer than frog's hair"? CTyankee Feb 2014 #11

From the "urban dictionary" PassingFair Feb 2014 #12

I understand Cirque du So-What Feb 2014 #8