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--n. 4 fluttering, flapping, flopping, fluctuation,
fluctuating, vacillation, vacillating, wave, waving,
oscillation, oscillating, trembling, quiver, quivering: The
slightest flutter of her fan communicates volumes. 5 See
fluster, 2.
flux n. instability, change, mutation, modification, fluctuation,
unrest, swing, swinging, wavering, movement, motion,
oscillation, indecision, indecisiveness: The economic
indicators are in a constant state of flux.
fly v. 1 take wing, take flight, take to the air, wing, soar, sail,
hover; flutter, flit, flap: A stork flew overhead. Daedalus
taught Icarus to fly. 2 Also, fly away or off. take flight,
depart, leave, flee, decamp, bolt, run away or off, escape, make
(good) one's escape, take to one's heels, show a clean pair of
heels, rush or nip off or out or away, (make a) run (for it), go
or get away or off, abscond, make a getaway, cut and run, beat a
(hasty) retreat, take off, scoot, Colloq light out, beat it,
clear out or off, skedaddle, scram, US cut out, hightail (it),
take it on the lam, take a (run-out) powder, lam out, take to
the hills, take to the woods; Slang Brit scarper, bugger off, US
vamoose, blow: She flew off before I could get her telephone
number. 3 hasten, hurry, rush, run, race, dash, sprint, tear,
scamper, scoot, Colloq make tracks: I must fly if I'm to catch
the train. 4 pass (by), elapse, go (by), expire, run its
course, slip or slide by or away: Time flies quickly when
you're having fun. 5 aviate, pilot; jet: Parker flies his own
plane. I flew down to Paris with him. 6 fly in the face of.
flout, defy, go against, contemn, scorn, scoff at, oppose, go or
run counter to, counter, counteract, countervail, countermine,
contradict, contravene, thumb one's nose at, Colloq Brit cock a
snook at: His actions fly in the face of conventional
behaviour. 7 fly off the handle. fly into a rage or fury or
temper or passion, lose one's temper, have a fit or tantrum, be
fit to be tied, go berserk, go crazy or mad, explode, Colloq
lose or blow one's cool, blow one's top, hit or go through the
roof, US hit the ceiling, blow one's stack, get worked up
(over); Slang blow a fuse or a gasket, flip (one's lid), have a
haemorrhage, Brit flip one's top: Rudolf flies off the handle
at the slightest provocation. 8 let fly. a throw, toss, cast,