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Etymology[edit]
Refers to the frenetic flight of a bluebottle.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
like a blue-arsed fly
- (simile) To be frantic, harried or restless
2008, Patrick Burke, An Illiterate Genius, page 277:He was running around like a blue-arsed fly.