Assertion: large dragonfly | /r/CapableOf | sew up the ears of truant schoolboys
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text: In The Insect Guide (1948), author Ralph B. Swain writes that “it was once popularly believed that [large dragonflies] sewed up the ears of truant schoolboys,” while a 1967 quote in DARE says “it would sew up your mouth if you told a lie.