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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are fly" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended as slang, but without context, it is difficult to determine its appropriate usage.
Example: "Those shoes are fly." (if used in a slang context to mean stylish or cool).
Alternatives: "are cool" or "are stylish."
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Many are "fly in, fly out" surgeons, not based in the UK.
When you are fly fishing you take your mind off of cancer".
All are fly fishermen, so Jeff and I lectured them on the necessity of the dead drift.
Dotty's three-hour show is "hijacked by women", as she spins Lil Kimm, Destiny's Child and Salt 'N' Pepa's satisfaction anthem Push It. "All women are fly," they state, in a celebration of being young, female and brilliant.
Their rhymes prove they are more than Kanye West's equal in the rap arena: "I'm the mother flippin' Rhymenocerous/My beats are fly and the birds are on my back/And I'm horny" 2. Ladies Of The World The boys do their bit for international relations by running through a list of nationalities they'd date - love the way they rhyme "Dominican" with "amphibian".
There are fly girls and players and b-boys and yuppies and buppies and tattooed frat men from Alpha Phi Alpha and wannabe D.J.'s or V.J.'s, all slicked down with something oily, sun-protection factor nil, and sipping bottles of Moët & Chandon White Star.
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On the other hand, the for-profits are relatively unregulated, and many are fly-by-night operations that scam students.
(The other two are fly-on-the-wall investigations of the artists Julie Mehretu and Claes Oldenburg).
Neither Gallup, of course, nor most of the other survey researchers struggling to cope with this supposed pogo-stick behavior are fly-by-night operators.
Raymond W. Kelly, the commissioner of the Customs Service, said: "Many of these Internet pharmacies are fly-by-night operations set up overseas to avoid U.S. law.
"There are fly-by-night analysts that are rumor-mongering because they are admittedly short the stock," says Perrie M. Weiner, international co-chairman of the securities litigation practice at DLA Piper, who represents reverse-merger companies in regulatory disputes.
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