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fly at
Idioms and Phrases
Attack fiercely, assault. For example, The dogs flew at each other's throats . [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
Flags on Scottish government buildings will also fly at half-mast during the funeral in honour of Pope Francis.
The junta called for flags to fly at half mast, media broadcasts to be halted and asked people to pay their respects.
They fly at a much higher speed and so are harder to intercept.
The sorts of missiles that would attack the United States would fly at a range of 6,000 miles, traveling at 10 times the speed of sound.
The poor owl carried so much symbolic weight that it was a miracle he could fly at all.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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