beetle

beetlebrain

A stupid person. Did you hear that guy's ridiculous question? Geez, what a beetlebrain.

ground beetle

Any of several families of beetles that are primarily found on or near the ground. Milly screamed and ran across the back yard after she overturned a stone and disrupted a group of ground beetles.
See also: beetle, ground
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

beetle

n. the original Volkswagen automobile. I remember when people used to put big windup keys on their beetles to make them look like windup toys.

beetlebrain

(ˈbidlæbren)
n. a stupid person. Why are you such a beetlebrain when it comes to math?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

blind as a bat/beetle/mole

Totally blind, or, figuratively, unseeing. None of these animals is, by the way, truly blind. The bat flies about in the dark in seemingly erratic paths (see bats in one’s belfry), and the beetle and mole burrow through the ground. Nevertheless, these similes are quite old and have become clichés. The bat analogy dates from the sixteenth century at least (John Harvey); the mole and beetle similes come from Roman times and were cited in translations by Erasmus.
See also: bat, beetle, blind, mole
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • cluck
  • cabbagehead
  • beetlebrain
  • conehead
  • chowderhead
  • cheesehead
  • beyotch
  • biatch
  • biotch
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The antennae, which are the beetle's primary organs of smell and touch, come in 11 basic styles that might resemble thread, a string of beads, a saw, a comb, a fan, a feather, a club or a bent elbow.
Backyard beetles, good or bad?
ySTANBUL (CyHAN)- Spurious claims of a rhino beetle being worth $90,000 only serve to harm the ecosystem as people go out looking for the critters, experts have said.
Experts call $90,000 rhinoceros beetle claim exaggerated, dangerous
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