fly-by-nightadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈflaɪ.baɪ.naɪt/us/ˈflaɪ.baɪ.naɪt/informal disapprovingFly-by-night companies or business people cannot be trusted because they are likely to get into debt and close down the business to avoid paying the debts or satisfying agreements:
a fly-by-night operator/organization
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Dishonest
- bad faith
- be rotten to the core idiom
- be up to no good idiom
- bent
- cowboy
- down-and-dirty
- dubious
- false
- finagle
- fishy
- malfeasance
- mendacious
- misleading
- perjure
- rich
- underhand
- unreliable
- unscrupulous
- unsporting
- weasel
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