Oh my word Flea, Flee

Flea is a wingless bloodsucking insect of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.Flea is a jumping insect without wings but it feeds on the blood of animals and human beings. A flea can retain the plague bacilli alive for seven or eight days. ‘A flea in one’s ear’ is an idiom: meaning rebuked or reprimanded, embarrassed or humiliated after an attempt at something by someone. Flea in one’s ear means sharp reproof.

The next time he shows his face around here he'll get a flea in his ear. Fleabite is a bite of lea which could be annoying; though the insect is small it causes inconvenience, and pain. Flea market is an open air market that sells old and used goods at low prices; and sometimes stolen goods as well; a market, often outdoors, consisting of a number of individual stalls selling old or used articles, curios and antiques, cut-rate merchandise, etc.

Six months after he arrived in Paris, he found another high-wheeled bicycle in a flea market and bought that too. Fleapit is an old and dingy cinema hall or theatre; a shabby public place, especially a run-down motion-picture theatre. Flee means to run or hurry away from someone or something; to move swiftly; fly; speed. Flee means escaping from danger, threat, etc.

Flee means to leave abruptly, shun: He fled from the office after an altercation with his colleague. The chief agitators were either sentenced to heavy terms of imprisonment or were compelled to flee the country. The shoppers fled the street as two groups were caught in a squabble. Many Kashmiri pandits fled from the Kashmir valley.

Civilians in the northeastern Sri Lanka fled the country to escape from the LTTE and the Sri Lankan government. Formally, flee refers to pass away quickly, or vanish, disappear. The following February, hours before he was to be sentenced, Polanski fled to Paris.The past tense and past participle of flee is fled. Other derivatives of the verb are flees, fleeing. Some Indians flee from income tax authorities, for a better lifestyle.

Kovuuri G Reddy