Mickey Finn
Example Sentences
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Inside Dette Flies, a 98-year-old fishing shop, I admired cases filled with flies that sounded like secret-service code names: Green Ghost, Mickey Finn, Pink Lady.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Thompson’s plot suggests a Grahame Greene novel of comic espionage, like Our Man in Havana, transferred to San Juan and given a Mickey Finn.
From Time ● Oct. 27, 2011
For there to be found, among others, was a certain Mickey Finn, as celebrated in his day and town as Aristide Bruant was in a section of Paris of the nineties.
From Fifth Avenue by Maurice, Arthur Bartlett
This fly has recently been named "Mickey Finn."
From How to Tie Flies by Gregg, Ellery Clark
An all yellow with black streak in the centre same as the "Mickey Finn" is another very good combination.
From How to Tie Flies by Gregg, Ellery Clark
