I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ball flies/sails
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The ball flew over the goalkeeper’s head and into the net.
a bird flies
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Some birds fly incredible distances.
a bullet flies (= moves fast )
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Bullets were flying around our heads.
a door flies/bursts open (= opens very suddenly and quickly )
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Then the door burst open and two men with guns came in.
a flag is flying (= a flag is shown on a pole )
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Flags were flying at half-mast because of the death of the Premier.
a flying insect
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Toads mainly eat small dark flying insects.
a flying start (= a very good start )
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The appeal got off to a flying start at the weekend when the group held a raffle.
a flying visit British English (= a very short visit )
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Timpson was due to pay a flying visit to London.
a plane flies
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Several planes flew overhead.
an insect flies
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Insects were flying around the food on the counter.
come running/flying/speeding etc
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Jess came flying round the corner and banged straight into me.
crane fly
flew open
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The bar door flew open and a noisy group burst in.
fly ball
fly half
fly into a temper (= suddenly become very angry )
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He flew into a temper at the slightest thing.
fly leaf
flying at an altitude
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We’re flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet.
flying buttress
flying debris
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She was hit by flying debris from the blast.
flying doctor
flying fish
flying fox
flying leap
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He threw a stick into the river and the dog went after it in a flying leap .
flying officer
flying picket
flying saucer
flying squad
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the head of Scotland Yard’s Flying Squad
flying tackle
fly/pilot a plane
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I admire the guys who flew those planes.
fruit fly
knocked flying
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Garry answered the door only to be knocked flying as two policemen came rushing in.
passed with flying colours (= got very high marks )
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She passed with flying colours .
pop fly
rumours fly around (= are talked about by a lot of people )
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There were wild rumours flying around the office on Wednesday.
sand fly
sparks...flying (= people were arguing angrily )
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The sparks were really flying at the meeting!
tsetse fly
tzetze fly
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
air
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Miranda found herself flying through the air .
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Now he was lord of the air , flying wherever he would, envied of all.
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Do not think that a command-and-control vehicle in the air was just a flying radio.
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In Air Sugihan rumours flew that the settlers were to be shifted so that the elephants could be left in peace.
aircraft
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The remaining seven aircraft were flown back to Prestwick for re-allotment.
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The page also will list the types of aircraft each airline flies .
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But witnesses in a nearby aircraft said the plane flew directly into the swamp.
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Undamaged, the aircraft was later flown from the field direct to Renfrew by F/O Pickard.
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Even aircraft are forbidden from flying closer than two and a half miles from the Gap.
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Outraged residents protested last night over the decision to allow the crippled aircraft to fly over their homes.
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Leaned, that aircraft will fly 116 miles on the same fuel which takes it only 100 miles in rich.
ball
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A black metal ball flew from his right hand.
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Striking the ball was a total physical pleasure, and the ball flew , bounced, and rolled some 220 yards.
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There was a nasty moment before the ball flew over the three bunkers that block the fairway.
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The ball flew fantastically well in the air of that glen and sat invitingly on its lively turf.
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The ball flew towards the travellers, and one of the street urchins collided with the Doctor.
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He blew his nose and sent the ball of tissue flying into the dark.
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The ball flew high and wide of Judy and over the high wire fence behind her.
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Aldridge, however, signalled a no-ball, ruling that the ball flew above the permitted height under the series rules.
bird
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You then bring your hands down and show that the birds have flown .
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Sometimes the hawk will begin to circle or glide and a smaller bird will fly directly beneath him.
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The sky had darkened, clouds had gathered, and birds were returning, flying in belatedly to feed their chicks.
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I was with her one day when a bird flew into her house.
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I saw birds fly across, pigeons, I think.
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The birds flew up noisily, circled, and then they came down and settled in another tree not far away.
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Fairly large, long-necked, long-legged wading birds , habitually flying with neck outstretched: a useful distinction from herons.
door
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Then the door of the laboratory flew open.
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Not those nosy Klubocks, she thought, turning to see the back door fly open.
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Martin and Mihal, gazing from the mountain-top, saw the door fly open.
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He saw both truck doors fly open and the humans jumped out just as Jekub -.
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The back door flew open and Norm rushed in, pulling off his filthy shirt.
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A moment later the sounds of the storm were magnified suddenly in the hut as the door at one end flew open.
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When I pedal-turned the tail away from the flames, my door flew open.
face
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The decades since Malthus's time have seen progress of a kind that flies in the face of everything he foresaw.
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But strong biological determinism flies in the face of experience.
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I find this hard to believe since it flies in the face of all the principles of wrestling.
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Neill triumphantly flies in the face of a long line of buffoon kings on film.
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Anita Roddick has made a virtue of flying in the face of business convention.
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Whatever the riddle is called, it flies in the face of 3, 000 years of logical philosophy.
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It flies in the face of commitments made at the Earth Summit to reduce consumption.
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That concept is irrational and unworkable because it flies in the face of everything we know about human nature.
flag
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A smaller, lower battle flag will fly in front of the capitol, beside a monument to slain Confederate soldiers.
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He is expected eventually to rule that the Union flag must fly , and he called the row unnecessary.
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There are no white flags flying outside the former Santa Rosa.
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Now I am passing an area where the crescent moon flag flies over shops, bakeries and mosques.
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Watch out for his flag being flown from the church towers on this day.
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The flags were flying at half-mast.
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Don't enter the firing ranges when the red flags are flying - usually from prominent places such as hilltops.
helicopter
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James Carney may have been hurled from a flying helicopter .
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She was flown to hospital by helicopter in a coma but died of multiple skull fractures.
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You either patrolled an area close by or you were flown by helicopter to the more remote places.
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At roundup time, Mercer teams with his oldest son, Gary, who flies a helicopter .
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She was flown by helicopter to hospital in Orlando.
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Maybe I ought to fly my helicopter up there and find out.
kite
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All of these generalisations depend of course on a constant wind speed sufficient to fly the kite within its designed wind window.
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We explored dry creek beds, burned mesquite wood for campfires, flew kites , and swam in lakes.
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Let's fly a kite or blow some bubbles up into the sky.
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Baldwin merely intended to fly a policy kite at Plymouth.
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In 1986, Kent cigarettes launched an ad campaign which depicted two people flying a kite on a page.
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This he duly did while Eric and I were out flying kites .
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The Government flies these kites of disinformation then people feel grateful when they don't happen.
night
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His soul would have no repose and would hover over the place, flying through the night .
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They were gone and they had left me alone with whatever was flying the night sky.
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They often flew through the night without the benefit of fighter escort.
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We flew at night with a minigun set up on the doors of the aircraft and a starlight scope.
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This is useful if you fly by night or live in murky waters.
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The summer Kim turned sixteen, they flew every night his father was home.
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Often flies by night , and hovers for insects in dusk.
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Any minute I expected the poor little madman to go flying in the night , dead.
pilot
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She became a pilot and now flies jumbo jets between Bali, Hawaii and Los Angeles.
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One pilot flew Dade County commissioners over the crash site, another pilot said.
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A helicopter pilot has to fly to a point 200 kilometres due East.
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Marine pilots flew their big H-34s off the rolling deck of their carrier to the hazy coastline and then returned.
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The pilot was flying the aircraft fairly close to the ground and was using road signs to help determine his location.
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Aspiring pilots get to fly seven Imperial fighters, each with its own characteristics.
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This is very noticeable with experienced pilots flying into cloud without the help of the instruments.
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But recently, Brothers' pilots have flown over Havana, dropping leaflets urging protests of the Castro regime.
plane
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The unarmed plane flew very fast and very high.
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While a second airframe shell was built as a back-up, it was destroyed after the plane stopped flying .
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Other aircrew who died in the crash were ... In Lyneham, the transport planes were flying again today.
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The disclosure came in response to reporters' questions about why the planes were not flying .
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Looking out of the window, Branson saw flames streaming momentarily from an engine; then the plane righted itself and flew on.
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He looked up at the sky and heard the rumble of planes flying above the cottony blanket of sky.
rage
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Mitch was going to fly into a rage .
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Whenever Stewart showed signs of rejecting that outlook, Joe would fly into a rage .
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Maclean immediately flew into a rage .
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He flew into a rage with him and brained him with his lute.
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The Collector had flown into a rage .
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I flew into a rage and quit.
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He gambled and drank, and she had to humour him always to prevent him from flying into rages ....
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Caledor flew into a towering rage and dismissed their fears as groundless.
spark
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They've a revolutionary scoreboard for the fans and on the pitch soccer to set the sparks flying .
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Over the past few weeks they'd been rubbing along fairly civilly, though not without the occasional spark flying between them.
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There would be blue sparks flying .
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The last person to use it saw sparks fly .
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Nothing Less likely to start sparks flying Than a burnt-out flame.
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All clear: sparks fly along the nerve wires, pins and needles and it's over.
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A spark flew , igniting the gaseous oxygen in the tank.
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Stirring the embers with a stick sent sparks flying , echoes of the vast starry night.
■ VERB
learn
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The strange and difficult was becoming second nature in the way that it had when I'd learned to fly .
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After learning to fly she took a job as a pilot with a small commuter airline based in Humberside.
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He learned to fly , naturally, on seaplanes.
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It would have been like stamping on a little bird you watch learning to fly .
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She let her daughter learn to fly and try to become the youngest child to fly cross-country.
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At best this will always be a compromise-which explains why this is one of the most difficult aspects of learning to fly .
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If you made it through that initiation, you got to the flight line and actually began to learn to fly .
let
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At playtime she opened the tin and let the cockroach fly into my blouse.
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With computers you can write quickly, letting your fingers fly from key to key.
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Quench me quick and clean: let the ashes fly lightly where they will; no plaques.
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The slicks slowed from 100 knots to about 80 to let the gunships fly ahead.
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Alternatively, let him fly high to act as a aerial patrol to intercept an enemy trying the same thing.
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There are many ways to engage in a productive argument, and letting it fly is certainly one of them.
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So we dismantled the screen over the window and let them fly around the back of the barn.
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Away with me! Let us fly these deadly waters!
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flying jump/leap
a flying start
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David Currie gave Barnsley a flying start, scoring after 31 seconds, and Andy Rammell added their second.
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However, you also need to give yourself a flying start by stimulating the circulation through massage and natural herbal extracts.
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It's given them a flying start ahead of their Japenese competitors, who until now were the traditional market leaders in electronics.
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Racers, once the top team in Britain, will want a flying start to the season to reassert themselves.
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That nagging thought deepened as the captain came in first, and gave the innings a flying start.
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The appeal got off to a flying start at the weekend when the group held a jumble sale and raffle.
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Video-Taped report follows Voice over Despite missing 7 first team regulars Gloucester got off to a flying start.
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Well, it seems we have a flying start.
a flying visit
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Its inventor looks like he's on a flying visit to the twentieth century.
as the crow flies
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My house is ten miles from here as the crow flies.
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The distance between the two towns is only 10 kilometres as the crow flies, but it can take up to 2 hours along the narrow coastal road.
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Similarly a stone's throw, as the crow flies, etc.
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The course should be five and a half miles as the crow flies.
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The distance between Avonmouth, near Bristol, and Poole in Dorset is only 65 miles as the crow flies.
fly a kite
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And, let's go fly a kite .
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In 1986, Kent cigarettes launched an ad campaign which depicted two people flying a kite on a page.
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Let's fly a kite or blow some bubbles up into the sky.
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This he duly did while Eric and I were out flying kites .
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We explored dry creek beds, burned mesquite wood for campfires, flew kites , and swam in lakes.
fly into a passion
fly/slip under sb's/the radar
keep the flag flying
leave/fly the nest
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After about three weeks, the young cuckoo is ready to leave the nest .
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Barn owls leave the nest at two to three months and are sexually mature at one year.
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If, however, the host appears reluctant to leave the nest , the cuckoo has a more direct approach.
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It is so rarely when all the fledglings have left the nest , to have them all together again.
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Once deposited, she leaves the nest and he immediately fertilizes the eggs.
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She usually builds on the shores of an estuary and there she sits devotedly, seldom leaving the nest .
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Unfortunately for her, the host bird showed no inclination to leave the nest .
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When the host leaves the nest , the cuckoo makes its approach in a long, silent hawk-like glide.
pigs might fly
the bird has flown
the fur flies
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When Marcia found out where Keith was all night, that's when the fur really started to fly.
time flies
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Dearest Jeanette How time flies especially when one is meant to be writing lots of letters.
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There are so many diversions here that the time flies by on wings.
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Think how time flies in periods of intense, purposeful activity.
with flying colours
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And they now look set to promote more harmonious race relations in the community after passing with flying colours.
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Fortunately, like the other tests, the 31-year-old convent-educated beauty passed with flying colours.
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He passed his exams with flying colours.
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He would have passed it with flying colours.
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Now he's gone back to driving school in an effort to pass with flying colours.
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So far James has never given a scrap of trouble and has passed his MoT test with flying colours.
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The Honey Thieves are a band who would graduate with flying colours from such a straight-forward system of appraisal.
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Trinity High School has just been inspected by Ofsted and come out with flying colours.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Are you going to fly or drive?
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As I slowed down another car flew past me and turned to the left.
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Brenda's learning to fly .
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Fighter jets fly at incredibly high speeds.
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Flocks of seagulls flew overhead.
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Her long hair was flying in the wind.
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His company flew him to Rio to attend the conference.
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I'm not allowed to fly visitors into the National Park area without permission.
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I flew Aeroflot out of Moscow.
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Lindbergh was the first man to fly the Atlantic.
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Medical equipment and food are being flown into the areas worst hit by the disaster.
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My mother never liked flying.
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Papers were flying around in the wind.
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Some kids were flying kites in the park.
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Stan flew helicopters in Vietnam.
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The bus was flying along when suddenly the driver slammed on the brakes.
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The ship is flying the Dutch flag.
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They were forced to fly the country in 1939.
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We'll be flying from New York to Munich.
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We're flying nonstop from Milwaukee to Orlando.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By the end of the year he had converted to twin-engined fighters, joining 252 Squadron to fly Blenheim IVFs and Beaufighters.
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Her fa-ther stood up, and the magpie, delighted, flew round and round with a marvelous clatter.
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Her heart broke and her soul flew to heaven.
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I managed to roll clear just as it flew off into the air, never to be seen again.
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Stop flying before it becomes too windy to move or fly the glider.
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The number of training sorties flown by its pilots had dropped 7. 8 percent a year for nearly a decade.
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This is when the pilots who have been hibernating during the winter months get their gliders out and start flying again.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile.
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By the end of the year he had converted to twin-engined fighters, joining 252 Squadron to fly Blenheim IVFs and Beaufighters.
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Her fa-ther stood up, and the magpie, delighted, flew round and round with a marvelous clatter.
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Her heart broke and her soul flew to heaven.
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I managed to roll clear just as it flew off into the air, never to be seen again.
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Stop flying before it becomes too windy to move or fly the glider.
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The number of training sorties flown by its pilots had dropped 7. 8 percent a year for nearly a decade.
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This is when the pilots who have been hibernating during the winter months get their gliders out and start flying again.
III. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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The air is stale and acrid, and a cluster of black flies hovers over the bed.
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They gazed at him with blue- black fly filled eyes, and a small glimmer of happiness grew on their faces.
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A fat black fly was buzzing against the windowpane.
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Heat waves dazzled off the chugging hood of the truck and fat black flies clung to its warm, splattered sides.
■ NOUN
crane
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A brown and white female appeared with a crane fly in her beak.
fruit
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Worms and fruit flies , too, have had all their units read off.
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The drug tests have been done so far only in fruit flies .
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A search through their genes reveals a set almost identical to those that help make the wing of a fruit fly .
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Then make sure you cover it, because those citrus pieces will attract fruit flies .
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Mutation could once be studied only in bacteria or in fruit flies .
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The only problem with the Clivus to date has been an outbreak of fruit flies inside the tank.
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Rotting guavas and fruit flies that hover around them are also prevalent on the ridge route.
tsetse
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The female tsetse fly retains her young for even longer.
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This transformed trypanosome line, ST3, was then transmitted through tsetse flies and the resulting bloodstream forms cloned in mice.
■ VERB
attract
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An unkempt coat will provide a refuge for parasites, and if soiled with faecal matter is likely to attract flies .
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Then make sure you cover it, because those citrus pieces will attract fruit flies .
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The reconditioned air attracts the flies so we wander round like lost nomads thinking about the next meal.
bite
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These microscopic biting flies would dry and shrivel in minutes out in the sun.
catch
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The reason is that where you get cobwebs, you get spiders - and spiders catch flies !
drop
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Then Souness comes and they drop like flies for two seasons running!
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Our kids are dropping like flies .
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They should be dropping like flies , but that hasn't been the case.
hurt
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He wouldn't hurt a fly .
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You couldn't hurt a fly with that thing.
keep
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It consists of a plastic bin with a lockable lid that will keep out flies , children and so on.
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Then, of course, he had a cover for keeping the flies off.
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The safe being a large cabinet with a fine wire-mesh door to keep flies off fresh food.
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The floor was of beaten earth, the walls washed white with lime to keep off the flies .
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To keep the flies away, crush garlic cloves in boiling water, allow to cool and then sponge over horse.
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She consoled herself with the thought that the acrid smoke would serve to keep flies out of the room.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flying jump/leap
a flying start
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David Currie gave Barnsley a flying start, scoring after 31 seconds, and Andy Rammell added their second.
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However, you also need to give yourself a flying start by stimulating the circulation through massage and natural herbal extracts.
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It's given them a flying start ahead of their Japenese competitors, who until now were the traditional market leaders in electronics.
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Racers, once the top team in Britain, will want a flying start to the season to reassert themselves.
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That nagging thought deepened as the captain came in first, and gave the innings a flying start.
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The appeal got off to a flying start at the weekend when the group held a jumble sale and raffle.
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Video-Taped report follows Voice over Despite missing 7 first team regulars Gloucester got off to a flying start.
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Well, it seems we have a flying start.
a flying visit
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Its inventor looks like he's on a flying visit to the twentieth century.
as the crow flies
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My house is ten miles from here as the crow flies.
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The distance between the two towns is only 10 kilometres as the crow flies, but it can take up to 2 hours along the narrow coastal road.
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Similarly a stone's throw, as the crow flies, etc.
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The course should be five and a half miles as the crow flies.
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The distance between Avonmouth, near Bristol, and Poole in Dorset is only 65 miles as the crow flies.
be bitten by the showbiz/travel/flying etc bug
be dropping like flies
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Players from both teams are dropping like flies.
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Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits.
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Our kids are dropping like flies.
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They should be dropping like flies, but that hasn't been the case.
fly into a passion
fly/slip under sb's/the radar
go flying/laughing/rushing etc
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Any minute I expected the poor little madman to go flying in the night, dead.
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Bodies not strapped in by seat belts go flying.
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But shouldn't you try and find out some more about him before you go rushing off?
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It tripped on a book and almost went flying, but it just succeeded in remaining upright.
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So why had she gone rushing north from Lima to see this half-brother of hers?
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Spit went flying, seen by millions.
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The doll and blanket went flying, bounced off the far end of the block, and fell into the make-believe river.
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The next member of the team took his place at the stumps only to see both bails go flying.
pigs might fly
send sb/sth flying/sprawling/reeling etc
the bird has flown
the fur flies
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When Marcia found out where Keith was all night, that's when the fur really started to fly.
time flies
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Dearest Jeanette How time flies especially when one is meant to be writing lots of letters.
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There are so many diversions here that the time flies by on wings.
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Think how time flies in periods of intense, purposeful activity.
with flying colours
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And they now look set to promote more harmonious race relations in the community after passing with flying colours.
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Fortunately, like the other tests, the 31-year-old convent-educated beauty passed with flying colours.
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He passed his exams with flying colours.
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He would have passed it with flying colours.
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Now he's gone back to driving school in an effort to pass with flying colours.
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So far James has never given a scrap of trouble and has passed his MoT test with flying colours.
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The Honey Thieves are a band who would graduate with flying colours from such a straight-forward system of appraisal.
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Trinity High School has just been inspected by Ofsted and come out with flying colours.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The flies were swarming around the garbage cans.
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Your fly is unzipped.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Real fishermen know how to tie flies and cast them so that they dance over the water.
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The sun was very bright; flies and insects buzzed on the littered veranda.
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Their heads were the size of flies and moved to and fro as they presumably spoke to one another.
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There are three ground pegging points at each bellend and one on either side of the fly .
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There might be bees, but there are clearly no flies on old Mel.
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There was a moment of indecisive silence, then rising voices, then the flies again.
IV. adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as the crow flies
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My house is ten miles from here as the crow flies.
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The distance between the two towns is only 10 kilometres as the crow flies, but it can take up to 2 hours along the narrow coastal road.
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Similarly a stone's throw, as the crow flies, etc.
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The course should be five and a half miles as the crow flies.
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The distance between Avonmouth, near Bristol, and Poole in Dorset is only 65 miles as the crow flies.
be bitten by the showbiz/travel/flying etc bug
be dropping like flies
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Players from both teams are dropping like flies.
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Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits.
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Our kids are dropping like flies.
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They should be dropping like flies, but that hasn't been the case.
fly a kite
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And, let's go fly a kite .
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In 1986, Kent cigarettes launched an ad campaign which depicted two people flying a kite on a page.
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Let's fly a kite or blow some bubbles up into the sky.
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This he duly did while Eric and I were out flying kites .
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We explored dry creek beds, burned mesquite wood for campfires, flew kites , and swam in lakes.
fly into a passion
fly/slip under sb's/the radar
go flying/laughing/rushing etc
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Any minute I expected the poor little madman to go flying in the night, dead.
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Bodies not strapped in by seat belts go flying.
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But shouldn't you try and find out some more about him before you go rushing off?
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It tripped on a book and almost went flying, but it just succeeded in remaining upright.
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So why had she gone rushing north from Lima to see this half-brother of hers?
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Spit went flying, seen by millions.
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The doll and blanket went flying, bounced off the far end of the block, and fell into the make-believe river.
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The next member of the team took his place at the stumps only to see both bails go flying.
keep the flag flying
leave/fly the nest
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After about three weeks, the young cuckoo is ready to leave the nest .
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Barn owls leave the nest at two to three months and are sexually mature at one year.
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If, however, the host appears reluctant to leave the nest , the cuckoo has a more direct approach.
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It is so rarely when all the fledglings have left the nest , to have them all together again.
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Once deposited, she leaves the nest and he immediately fertilizes the eggs.
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She usually builds on the shores of an estuary and there she sits devotedly, seldom leaving the nest .
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Unfortunately for her, the host bird showed no inclination to leave the nest .
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When the host leaves the nest , the cuckoo makes its approach in a long, silent hawk-like glide.
pigs might fly
send sb/sth flying/sprawling/reeling etc
the bird has flown
the fur flies
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When Marcia found out where Keith was all night, that's when the fur really started to fly.
time flies
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Dearest Jeanette How time flies especially when one is meant to be writing lots of letters.
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There are so many diversions here that the time flies by on wings.
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Think how time flies in periods of intense, purposeful activity.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mmm, that Sharlene is one fly girl.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If you go fly fishing you are normally wanting to catch either trout or salmon.
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Of course you'd expect to find fly ash at any period since people began burning coal in quantity.
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What makes fly fishing different from coarse and sea fishing is the way you cast.
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When fly fishing you only have the fly tied on the line.
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When fly fishing you use an artificially made fly.