bee-in-the-bonnet

Updated: May 7, 2025

He could trace the connection in a parishioner's life history between bad drainage and drunkenness: later on though it might perhaps be very much later on a "bee-in-the-bonnet" of his child: and he saw in this unhappy, unfortunate Little Result the outcome of someone's sinful failure in his duty to his neighbour in years gone by, when the first insanitary conditions were allowed to live and be mighty.

Giberne Sieveking - Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman