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Idioms and Phrases
Be elated, as in They were flying high after the birth of their first baby . This expression alludes to a high pitch of feeling. [Mid-1600s]Discover More
Example Sentences
In addition such of them as fly high must be prepared to stand great variations in temperature.
At each explosion huge, torn fragments of steel fly high above us across the sky.
Almost all the bullets fly high over us towards the top of the slope behind us.
When the weather is calm the ephemeræ upon which swallows feed fly high in air, but just over the earth or water if it be rough.
All the birds of the swallow kind fly high at the advent of or during fine weather, and low before a storm.
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