take a fling
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
By 1927 he had decided to take a fling at the U.S.
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As an actor in church plays, he had been bitten by the theatrical bug, longed to take a fling at more serious acting.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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"Well, now, have you come round to take a fling at me?" said the girl, with more of terror than anger in her voice.
From Norston's Rest by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
