Jesus bug
nounEtymology In the case of the water strider, allusion to the miracle of Jesus Christ walking on water.
1
Synonym of water strider (“an insect of the family Gerridae”).
2
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Jesus, bug.
- I was twenty when I first caught the Jesus bug. It took another two years before I even considered visiting a church.2020 January 29, Justin Rosolino, Idiot, Sojourning Soul: A Post-Secular Pilgrimage, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29: