bitten by the same bug

bitten by the same bug

Sharing a particular desire, interest, or impulse. I can't believe we applied to the same five schools! We must have been bitten by the same bug.
See also: bitten, bug, by, same
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bitten by the same bug

Fig. having the same need, desire, or obsession. Bob and I were both bitten by the same bug and ended up getting new cars at the same time.
See also: bitten, bug, by, same
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • to the quick
  • slug bug
  • bug nut
  • bug off
  • Bug off!
  • put a bug in (one's) ear
  • put a bug in ear
  • put a bug in someone's ear
  • be bursting to (do something)
References in periodicals archive
"I have always kept a record of what I do and my grandfather and father were bitten by the same bug. This was a chance to put it all together and show how my interests have been shaped by the inheritance of the past."
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I now understand that BBC Wales has been bitten by the same bug and intends to leave Llandaff for pastures new.
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Manchester Airport (it's changing names to Manchester-Boston Regional Airport) has "been bitten by the same bug everyone else haslegacy carriers rushing to cut mainline jet service and replacing it with affiliate/subsidiary regional jet service instead." The reader says the move "has been devastating to Manchester." Delta, for example, used to offer full-size MD-88 service to MHT.
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