When one sets pots of water at each bedpost to act as a sort of midnight moat, the pesky things climb to the ceiling and drop down on the bed. However, he added they are rapidly being eliminated in most parts of the country by the, entomologically speaking, lethal sprays. Well, sit still a minute for the favorite joke of dictionary editors. A bug expert. This accounts for the expression not worth a red cent , which has roots in the British 'not worth a brass farthing' and which remains a good descriptive phrase because the penny still has enough copper in it to appear reddish.
Tomorrow is another day.
I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back. The last sentence is as it appears in Margaret Mitchell's novel, but the idea behind it is proverbial. In the 1740s, Henry Fielding uses 'pretty kettle of fish' in both Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones , so it was obviously well established by then. Brewer has a plausible explanation, saying that 'kettle of fish' is an old Border country name for a kind of fete champetre or riverside picnic, where a newly caught salmon is boiled and eaten. The discomfort of this sort of party may have led to the phrase.