If you feel particularly warm, cozy and comfortable, you might say that you're "as snug as a bug in a rug", at least in English. This page contains equivalents of this saying in various other languages.
The saying first appeared in print in English in 1769 in the play The Stratford Jubilee.
| Language | Translations |
|---|---|
| English | as snug as a bug (in a rug) as snug as a bee in a box, making his honey as snug as pigs in pease-straw |
| Dutch | behaaglijk, als een mol in zijn hol snug, like a mole in its hole |
| French | être comme un coq en pâte to be like a cockerel / rooster in pastry être bien au chaud to be well and warm |
| Irish | chomh seascair le lachín i stáca as snug as a duckling in a stack |
| Italian | sta come un ragno nel muro like a spider in the wall calduccia come una bertuccia nella cuccia warm as a monkey in the kennel |
| Manx | cha skeoigh as lugh 'sy chreeagh as snug as a mouse in a boundary |
| Polish | jak u Pana Boga za piecem like God is behind the stove jak niemowlę w objęciach like a baby in your arms jak kotu za piecem like a cat behind the stove jak pączek w ciaśle like a doughnut in butter |
| Portuguese | tão confortável como um rancho canadense na floresta as comfortable as a Canadian ranch in the woods |
| Scottish Gaelic | cho seasgair ri luchag ann an cruach as snug as a mouse in a (peat-)stack cho blàth 's cofhurtail ri ugh ann an tòn na circe as warm and comfortable as an egg in a hen's backside |
| Spanish | cómodo como pancho por su casa comfortable as a hot dog in its house rico como un mico con pico rich as a monkey with a beak |
| Welsh | cyn glyted â nyth cath as snug as a cat's nest clyd fel pathew / cyn glyted â phathew (as) snug as a dormouse cynnes fel tost(yn) warm like toast |
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/origin-history-of-snug-as-a-bug-in-a-rug
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/as-snug-as-a-bug.html
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snug_as_a_bug_in_a_rug#English
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