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fling back

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fling someone or something back 
1. to sling or throw someone or something backwards. I had to fling the child back, away from the fire. I flung back the door and ran out. Walt grabbed at the door and flung it back.
2. to return someone or something by slinging or throwing. She took the little fish and flung it back into the water. Did you fling back the ball to Roger?
See also: back, fling


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On the inside, it can be different: the person trapped in a loveless 30-year marriage might still long wistfully for the magic of that two-month fling back in 1974, or those final hours in 1976 before the injunction kicked in.
Well Mama, we hear the winds fling back, the cavernous bellies of the mountains asking, "What does Quebec want?
Their predecessors at Stalingrad did indeed fling back the invincible Nazis with the utmost heroism.
 
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