flit about

flit about

To move in a quick, deft manner. The kids are outside, trying to catch the lightning bugs that are flitting about. I think Anita is flitting about the office, straightening up. Good luck finding her.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

flit about

to move about quickly; to dart about. A large number of hummingbirds were flitting about. Butterflies and moths flitted about among the trees and flowers.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • flutter about
  • flutter around (something)
  • go like lightning
  • flit from person to person
  • (as) quick as lightning
  • flit from
  • flit from (something to something)
  • flit from (something) to (something)
  • lightning
  • quick
References in periodicals archive
* "Many gurus flit about the land today predicting a monetary armageddon while urging the necessity for squirreling away gold and oatmeal in order to survive.
DECEMBER 1975: 25, YEARS AGO IN REASON
Roger Charlton's Waki Music is worth watching in the betting before Kempton's EBF Irish Night Maiden Fillies' Stakes (6.30), though she will have to be smart to beat Flit About.
Lambourn: Tango should lead rivals merry dance; View from the training centres
A fly fisherman, James Marden spent many hours watching insects flit about the water's surface, little knowing that his casual observations would someday provide new insight into how insects evolved wings.
Did insects skim before they flew?