Jesus bug
English
Etymology
In the case of the water strider, allusion to the miracle of Jesus Christ walking on water.
Noun
Jesus bug (plural Jesus bugs)
- Synonym of water strider (“insect of the family Gerridae”)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Jesus, bug.
- 2020 January 29, Justin Rosolino, Idiot, Sojourning Soul: A Post-Secular Pilgrimage, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, OCLC 1141420669, page 29:
- I was twenty when I first caught the Jesus bug. It took another two years before I even considered visiting a church.