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on the fly



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Idioms and Phrases

In a hurry, on the run, as in I picked up some groceries on the fly . The transfer of this expression, which literally means “in midair or in flight,” dates from the mid-1800s.
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Example Sentences

We shoot in Brooklyn, and I live in Brooklyn, so I sort of do a lot of on-the-fly street-style research.

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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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