devil's coach-horse


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
devil's coach-horse
noun Brit. a large black predatory rove beetle which raises its hind end and opens its jaws threateningly when disturbed. [Staphylinus olens.]
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