take a fling
Example Sentences
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Says he: "I thought I'd take a fling at it."
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Most professional money managers, Merrill Lynch's included, have been sensibly enough urging investors anxious to take a fling in the market to put their money into stocks of blue-chip companies.
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In 1933, with his factory grown to ten employees in bigger quarters adjoining the drugstore, Joyce decided to take a fling at playshoes.
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Armed with her mother's Southern recipe for pickled beans, a North Carolinian named Sonya Hagna, 24, decided to give up her New Jersey schoolteaching job in 1958 and take a fling at pickling.
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Bully boy! now you’re going to take a fling, and here’s wishing you the greatest of luck!”
From The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line Or, With the Allies in France by Ralph Marlow
