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单词 fly-post
释义

fly-post

verb [with object] British
Put up (advertising posters) in unauthorized places.Mr Bayley's offices in Holgate Road have twice been targeted by fly-posting protesters, firstly last month, and then earlier this month....
  • The secret organisation has fly-posted stickers on billboards and bus stops in the city centre with an ‘Up Yours’ message to the town hall blitz on litter louts and other environmental offenders.
  • The claims go against some of the opponents to the Coppergate Riverside scheme who recently fly-posted empty shops, claiming 150 were already standing empty.

Derivatives

fly poster

noun ...
  • Has the spirit of Christmas become a bill-board over which commerce pastes a fresh fly poster each year?
  • Some councils have gone even further to rid their boroughs of unwanted fly posters.
  • Companies putting up fly posters advertising events are finding large "cancelled" notices stuck over them.

Origin

Early 20th century: from on the fly at fly1.

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