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Discover LudwigThe phrase "Flying visit" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe a short and quick visit, often with little time for extended conversation or activities. Example: "I can only stay for a flying visit, as I have another appointment to get to."
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Flying visit
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A very short visit
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It's a flying visit too.
The flying visit is over!
It will be another flying visit.
Khan's homecoming turned out to be little more than a flying visit.
No doubt much of the fault was ours; it was, after all, just a flying visit.
She writes: Government officials are holding much in store in the French president's flying visit.
We caught two bands last night, which isn't bad going for such a flying visit.
And, this week, Madeleine Albright, the secretary of state, paid a flying visit to the two capitals.
Meanwhile, the Barbican has had a flying visit from Hamlet, as envisaged by the diehard avant-gardist Thomas Ostermeier.
During Theresa May's 36-hour "flying" visit to New York in September, she found time to call on Murdoch.
Essie Davis is back in Australia from the UK for a flying visit to attend the Logies awards.
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