noun
- bites from fleas that cause small, itchy red bumps on the skin
- minor irritations or trivial problems
Usage: figurative
Examples
- The dog’s fleabites were making him scratch constantly.
- She applied calamine lotion to soothe the fleabites on her ankles.
- After camping, we all had fleabites around our sock lines.
- Don’t worry about those complaints – they’re just fleabites compared to our real challenges.
- The critic’s harsh review was merely fleabites to the successful author.
- These budget cuts are fleabites when you consider the overall savings needed.