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fly out (of something) 1. Lit. to leave a place by air. We are going to fly out of Manaus on a charter. We flew out on time. 2. Fig. to leave a place quickly. We flew out of there as fast as we could, She opened the door and flew out. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Formerly only bees laden with honey flew into the hive, and they flew out empty; now they fly out laden. He did not know whether to fly out of the cloister and sit down by the altar of Jove that was in the outer court, and on which both Laertes and Ulysses had offered up the thigh bones of many an ox, or whether to go straight up to Ulysses and embrace his knees, but in the end he deemed it best to embrace Ulysses' knees. John is a cautious man," he said, with a droll smile, "and it is not always easy to get his opinion about people, so I thought if I beat the bush on this side the birds would fly out, and I should learn what I wanted to know quickly; so now we will come to business. |
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