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.