Bug
Bug noun - A person with a strong and habitual liking for something.
Both words in one sentence
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Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis; the protagonist has transformed into a bug (literally "vermin"), possibly a beetle.
Source: Animorphism - Kafka's The Metamorphosis features a main character who becomes a bug (literally "vermin") whose only escape from his life's horror is self destruction.
Source: Downer Ending / Literature - GURPS Warehouse 23 mentioned that one of the powers ascribed to The Ark of the Covenant was that it would shoot lightning to kill the vermin on the Israelites' path, thus making it the Bug Zapper Of The Gods, and dared the GM to imagine a Secret Master decadent enough to use it only as such.
Source: Priceless Paperweight
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