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There are no less than six fables concerning an impertinent insect, which is taken in general to refer to the kind of interfering person who makes himself out falsely to share in the enterprise of others or to be of greater importance than he is in reality. Some of these stories are included among Aesop's Fables, while others are of later origin, and from them have been derived idioms in several languages.

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The Impertinent Insect

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concerning an impertinent insect, which is taken in general to refer to the kind of interfering person who makes himself out falsely to share in the enterprise...

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Housefly

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Aesop's "The Impertinent Insect" onwards. Authors sometimes choose the housefly to speak of the brevity of life, as in William Blake's 1794 poem "The Fly"...

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Insects in literature

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in the Quran. Eric Carle's children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar portrays the larva as an extraordinarily hungry animal. The Impertinent Insect is...

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List of Latin verbs with English derivatives

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the origin of English words. See also Latin spelling and pronunciation. In some Latin verbs, a preposition caused a vowel change in the root of the verb...

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Roderick Alleyn

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are allowed to be impertinent. Especially when they are policemen.' Vintage Murder (1937) also indicates Alleyn spent three years in the army after graduating...

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List of compositions by Henry Purcell

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vile are the sordid intregues" Z 603, Incidental Music, The Married Beau or The Curious Impertinent (1694) Movement 1, Overture Suite Movement 2, Slow Air...

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Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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was originally used in the northeast, deriving from the Roma word charva, meaning a disreputable youth. cheeky * impertinent; noun form, cheek, impertinence;...

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