What is "bluebottles"

Usage examples of "bluebottles".

When I received the notice that I had been cashiered, Meeley turned me over to the bluebottles.

But he had even gone as far as the bluebottles—Domestic Police—to get a list of confirmed rape-murderers.

He had been tagged several times by the bluebottles of Flisten on suspicion of rape-murder but there was no proof.

The bluebottles also do this kind of thing but not on the scale of the Apparatus which is mostly political.

He wrinkled his nose in disgust at the odor, which filled the wood around and was already attracting ants and bluebottles.

But he had even gone as far as the bluebottles-Domestic Police-to get a list of confirmed rape-murderers.

He said, "Don't you be too long or I'll get a fender bash from the local bluebottles!

Citizens, bluebottles, officials, we must have about two thousand of them, anything you want.

Flying ants and wasps, bees and bluebottles, butterflies and mosquitoes fought airborne war against a thousand predators, aspises and dheri that snapped at them on the wing.

He had a screen cage full of flies -- big bluebottles that were slow and easy to work with and easy for the crowd to see and hear.

He'd jump all over the stage swiping wildly at the air, come within a frog hair of splatting his fist into the chafing dish a dozen times, get the girl volunteer to flap her arms to flush the little buzzers his way, and all the while talking his talk about the similarities and differences between Herefords and bluebottles until the audience was half-convinced that he was never going to catch the fly but was laughing anyway and jumpy as a drunk with a glass of milk waiting for him to smack a bare hand into that pile of warm dung.