on the bum
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"If you obsess so much on youth that will bite you on the bum, unfortunately."
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
She later confessed that the stress of stardom caused her to develop a "boil on the bum" that had to be lanced hours before performing live on Dutch TV.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2022
This is madness, and it will bite them on the bum in the end.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013
Were Emma, so sardonic and yet so soft-hearted, and Dexter, such a dreadful show-off until life bites him on the bum, based on real people?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 6, 2011
I had many a job for a little spell; I been on the bum, and I've hit it swell.
From Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Anton Otto Fischer
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