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/flaɪ-baɪ-naɪt/ Listen

Fly-by-night

noun

A debtor who flees to avoid paying.

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"Fly-by-night" Quotes from Famous Books

... one of these little fly-by-night shows!" scoffed Mercy. "Let's see that bill. Dakota Joe's Wild West and Frontier Round-Up' Mm! Sounds big. But the bigger they sound the smaller ...

— Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest - Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies • Alice B. Emerson

... was Purdy's growing fellowship with the rebel faction. The boy was too young and still too much of a fly-by-night to have a black mark set against his name. It would be the more absurd, considering that his sincerity in espousing the diggers' cause was far from proved. He was of a nature to ride tantivy into anything that promised excitement ...

— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson

... His Fly-by-night Excellency arrived in town I was very drunk. You will excuse the pride with which I state that fact; but it was quite a feat for me to attain that desirable state. Somebody had left a cot out under the orange trees in the yard of Madama Ortiz's hotel. I stepped over the wall, ...

— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry

Words linked to "Fly-by-night" : untrusty, debtor, untrustworthy, debitor, temporary, impermanent