on the bum
Example Sentences
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"If you obsess so much on youth that will bite you on the bum, unfortunately."
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025
This is madness, and it will bite them on the bum in the end.
From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2013
You always get bitten on the bum when you get fancy.
From BBC • May 30, 2012
When misused – look at Facebook – it can make one long for the days when bad grammar was punished with a metre rule on the bum rather than an "unlike".
From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2011
"Do you think they'll try to put the place on the bum, sir?" cried Pete, the irrepressible, his eyes flashing.
From The Boy Scout Fire Fighters or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed by Maitland, Robert
