"fly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There were kiddie rides-hot-air balloons that never left the ground, giant frogs with pink plaster tongues that chased flies in small circles, a carousel fit for a princess.
- The worst anyone found to say about him, religious matters aside, was that he sometimes enjoyed watching spiders chase flies.
- She switched her skirts as if she was chasing flies rather than trying to seduce Don Jose with a glimpse of leg and bosom.
- When recounting this to his friends that a clerk has been fired from office, refers to this "a promotion", elaborating that the new office involves "chasing flies out of [the park in] Cişmigiu".
- Loafing about the house, Abel (Mr. van Warmerdam) spends hours peering into the windows across the street through binoculars and chasing flies with a pair of scissors.
- In the eponymous 1900 sketch, the voluble Mitică notably refers to a friend of his having been laid off from his job, an event which he sarcastically disguises as a promotion to "chasing flies out of Cișmigiu".
- Burns Carroll, the Kansas City catcher, had the reputation of being a fiend for chasing foul flies, and he dashed at this one with a speed that threatened a hard fall over the players' bench or a collision with the fence.
- Show me what a warrior of the Tower of the Serpent is good for, besides waving his swords about as though he were chasing flies away from a garbage heap.
- When he was near the top of a hill he dismounted to let his horse graze, while Frisk amused himself by chasing flies.
- Even the puppy was asleep, lying unconscious on the concrete after a morning of chasing flies.
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