have a fling
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This surprising state of affairs had its beginning last spring when the staid Globe-Democrat decided to have a fling at big-time circulation promotion.
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At 28, she packed up her two daughters and took off for London, there to try the flamboyant high-and-low life her heroines always have a fling at.
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He has found time to tour Sweden, visit his father in Moscow, have a fling at Hollywood, build the sets for the London production of Waltzes from Vienna.
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There they were joined by two hundred Frenchmen and eighty Englishmen, old buccaneers who had crossed the Isthmus of Darien to have a fling in the South Seas.
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Paine, Ralph Delahaye
Unhappily Barrius—we all have a fling at this "Strabo and Pliny of Calabria"!
From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman