pick up a bug

Or perhaps you've picked up a bug from an infected person.

You may have picked up a bug from a friend, family member or co-worker.

"Looks like he picked up a bug from our fair city's fine cuisine.

She floated out and picked up a bug.

"I'd like to go up and check on my son-he seems to have picked up a bug himself."

Yup, it's catching: the watchers forgot that anyone can pick up a bug.

They ate some bad clams, or their food was too spicy, or they've picked up a bug.

Control, kindly release the mooring clamps-we've picked up a bug of some sort.

So disinfecting the surfaces in the home should, in theory, reduce the chances of picking up a bug.

So, I'm wondering if that is causing the problem, and/or I've somehow picked up a bug from a dodgy computer.

Perhaps more typically, he was homesick and unhappy: "At first I wondered whether I'd picked up a bug.

"How silly of me--of course you wouldn't want her to risk getting the 'flu or picking up a bug."

There is no obligation to pick up a bug from a cache as Geocachers can simply "discover" the bug on the website.

'I don't like making excuses but I picked up a bug in Germany at the weekend and haven't been able to shake it off,' explained world No13 McManus.

'I picked up a bug in Germany at the weekend' explained McManus, who contested a European League game in Augsburg, where more than eight inches of snow fell in 48 hours.

I THINK I'VE PICKED UP A BUG OF SOME SORT.

It was only when I could no longer distinguish a WOK from a LOP or a coder from a code-book that I realized that I'd picked up a bug, and that it was making itself at home in its new accommodation.

Well, hardly any, if you discount the time she dragged a bone back to the ship when we were on Tevelin and the bone turned out to be the first cousin of the local prime minister and still very much alive: More likely than fatigue though, was the possibility that she had picked up a bug somewhere.