take a fling
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He was on the way back from St. Chamond a few days later when a messenger clambered into his compartment at Dijon with President Auriol's invitation to take a fling at forming a government.
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The Japanese generals and admirals might even decide to by-pass Singapore for the time being, to take a fling directly at the Indies.
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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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He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, interrupted his studies to work for Herbert Hoover's relief commission in Belgium, to go to India, take a fling in General Smuts's East African Army.
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"Ef I was a young man, I'd take a fling at this thing," said Landy soberly.
From David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story by George S. Harney
