Highland fling
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Highland fling
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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The old Highland fling is back on with the return of the fantasy drama “Outlander.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2017
In the course of it all Charlie outsmarts himself; no Heavenly fling, he discovers, can equal a good old Highland fling.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I didn't know the Highland fling from a sailor's hornpipe," he said later.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama caught the city up in a giddy Highland fling.
From Time Magazine Archive
The leader, at intervals, made as though he would sit upon the ground, and then suddenly sprang high, with an oich! something like the shout in a Highland fling.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
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