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took a flyer
verb
Simple past tense of take a flyer
Exact(17)
"We took a flyer on him.
A Pakistani driver named Shams ur-Rehman took a flyer.
The man took a flyer and a DVD.
A woman on her way to the dentist stopped and also took a flyer.
She took a flyer but said everyone was expecting Chick-fil-A so she really couldn't go somewhere else.
They are mildly surprised to be told that Mr Miller confessed that he sometimes "took a flyer" on some promising company.
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He streaked past everybody in the solarium and took a flying leap into the hot tub.
He never took a flying lesson, but he said he learned from a handbook.
I took a fly rod for comfort and quickly started to get a lot of hits on small yellow poppers.
But Swann went to Lyon and shortleg, Bresnan pinged a catch to deepish mid off, where Rogers took a flying catch to give Johnson a third wicket.
He fixed me with his eyes, spread his legs, lowered his body and took a flying leap to tear a bite out of the toast.
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