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flies noun► and no fliesas an exhortation to believe the statement to which it is appended UK, 1846. ► no flies on someonenothing at all wrong or amiss with someone AUSTRALIA, 1845
idiomfliesbe dropping/dying like flies(also be going down like flies)spoken used in order to say that a lot of people are becoming ill or dying, especially with the same illness or disease:In the year of the flu epidemic, men were dropping like flies as they worked, and their friends had to carry them to the church for burial.A couple of children said they didn't feel well. The next day, the whole school started going down like flies.(there are) no flies on sbused in order to say that someone is intelligent, so that they quickly understand what is happening in a particular situation and cannot easily be deceived:We sat in the dark bar trying to look tough. No flies on us. We would show them how smart country kids could be.The old lady never forgot a word I said and corrected me when I contradicted myself. There were no flies on her.
See:- a fly on the wheel
- a shut mouth catches no flies
- as the crow flies
- barfly
- be dropping like flies
- catch flies
- catch more flies with honey than vinegar, one can
- day the eagle flies
- die like flies
- die/drop/fall like flies
- drink with the flies
- drop like flies
- drop like flies, to
- fly a kite
- fly across (something)
- fly apart
- fly away
- fly beneath (the/someone's) radar
- fly blind
- fly by
- fly by the seat of (one's) pants
- fly high
- fly in
- fly in the face of
- fly in the teeth of
- fly into (someone or something)
- fly into a rage
- fly into a temper
- fly into the face of danger
- fly kites
- fly light
- fly off
- fly off at a tangent
- fly off the handle
- fly out
- fly out of (some place)
- fly the coop
- fly the flag
- fly the nest
- fly to (someone or something)
- fly under (the/someone's) radar
- fly up to (some place)
- honey catches more flies than vinegar
- how time flies
- if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck
- like flies to manure
- lord of the flies
- no flies on
- no flies on (one)
- no flies on one
- no flies on somebody
- straighten up and fly right
- the day the eagle flies
- the fur flies
- there are no flies on
- there are no flies on someone
- There's no flies on
- there's no flies on him/her
- time flies
- time flies when you're having fun
- When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window
- when the eagle flies
- you attract more flies with honey than vinegar
- You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
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