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One is wide awake; there is nothing slow or dull about one. For example, She may be new to this field, but there are no flies on her . This slangy expression, which alludes to flies settling on a sluggish animal, was being used in Australia in the 1840s but did not appear in America until the last decades of the 1800s.Advertisement
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