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单词 go fly a kite
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go fly a kite
a. To cause (a kite) to rise and maintain its position in the air. Also colloquial or slang, to fly a kite: to raise money by an accommodation bill; also, to try something out; to act in an exploratory manner; hence to fly a bill; colloquial (chiefly U.S.), go fly a kite = ‘go away’, ‘be off’.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [verb (transitive)] > fly kite
fly1739
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (intransitive)] > use bills of exchange
redraw1697
to fly a kite1808
shave1832
to draw pig on (also upon) pork1846
to fly a bill1861
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (intransitive)] > borrow money by means of fictitious bills
to fly a kite1808
to fly a bill1861
1739 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 24 July (1932) (modernized text) II. 367 If you were to fly your kite.
1808 Sporting Mag. 32 181 In Ireland flying the kite is used as a cant phrase for raising money on accommodation bills.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. ii. 23 One of the amusements of the prisoners was flying kites.
1848 Punch 27 May 226/1 He never does ‘a little discounting’ nor lends his hand to ‘flying a kite’.
1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage II. xi. 218 Fly a bill, and let Tozer have it to get cash on it in the city!
1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary i. v. 50 O Madam, You fly your thoughts like kites.
1928 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 7 Jan. 21/2 Now would you like for mamma to go on reading to you about this Polark soldier and his girl friend, or would you like to go fly a kite.
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 291/2 Fly a, the, kite,.. to test public opinion by tentative measures.
1942 ‘H. Pentecost’ I'll sing at your Funeral (1945) vii. 64 ‘He suggested,’ said Bradley, with a sigh, ‘that I go fly a kite!’
1951 C. P. Snow Masters xv. 137 At the beginning Brown had, as he used to say, ‘flown a kite’ for compromise, now Chrystal joined him.
1961 Lebende Sprachen 6 99/2 Go jump in the lake,..go fly a kite; DDT (drop dead twice).
1971 Nature 26 Feb. 584/1 The solution, the committee suggests—and it is plainly flying a kite and not laying down policy—may be a more selective way of choosing the departments to which studentships will be allocated.
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