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flits

  • present tense form of flit (3rd person singular).

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What’s more, he acts them to the hilt, turning “Haircut” into a dramatic monologue with a head-turning reveal and “Uncle Fred Flits By” into a one-disaster-after-another farce from which the only thing missing is pratfalls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2018

Wodehouse’s “Uncle Fred Flits By,” two of the family’s favorite tales.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2018

Like all of Wodehouse’s best tales, “Uncle Fred Flits By” is utter nonsense, a tightly plotted farce made of thin air.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2018

John Lithgow’s “Drama: An Actor’s Education” opens with the production that brought his life’s work into focus: a bedside dramatization of the hilarious P. G. Wodehouse story “Uncle Fred Flits By.”

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2011

From flow'r to flow'r, his joy to change, Flits yonder wanton bee; From fair to fair thus will I range, And I'll be ever free.

From Prince Fortunatus by Black, William