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takes a flyer
verb
Third person singular of take a flyer
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"If someone takes a flyer today, I'll pay them".
Up on 10, Na's ball takes a flyer out of a bunker.
That running scene (before Frances takes a flyer) is a fond reminder – and tribute to – Allen himself hurrying along the streets at the film's end, with George Gershwin's lovely music swelling in the background.
Alec Baldwin brings a touch of comic guile to the rock-club impresario who takes a flyer on the pair of songbirds, while Russell Brand as his sidekick doodles amusingly with a Brummie accent.
A woman takes a flyer from her, while grown-up friends hold a banner that reads "Faithfulness to the Covenant Means Disarmament".
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"Worm" also takes a flying leap into the world of Marvel Comics.
But first they stop at Giant Do-Nut, where the squirrel takes a flying leap out of his shoe box and into a waitress's hair.
At the Laurel Futurity, he takes a flying horseshoe on the bridge of his nose at forty miles an hour and goes on to win.
Russell is the standout in this category, too: he stashes a cigarette behind his ear, breaks furniture, arm-wrestles Method Man, and takes a flying leap into a garbage container to impress Lupe Fiasco.
At Poço do Diabo (devil's pool) a crazy Dutchman takes a flying jump off an 82-foot cliff into the water.
Or the cat who takes a flying jump shot out of a laundry hamper at the clothes his owner flings at the wall above the hamper.
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