fly-by-night
Example Sentences
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State subsidies are paid directly to child-care providers, which could enable fraudsters to set up fly-by-night day care to bilk the government.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
“I hired this fly-by-night team who set up the balloon in this wooded area,” Levine said.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024
Experts say the problem is fueled by the ease of setting up a fly-by-night operation online to move goods.
From Washington Times • Jan. 1, 2024
Mr. Stoppelman said the surplus of fly-by-night companies gave credence to a joke that circulated around PayPal: Start-ups do better in the suburbs because their workers have less to do outside the office.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2022
Those jars were something you might expect to find in the basement of a fly-by-night medical school, not a house full of children.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
