take a fling
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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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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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Then, at 30, bored with the "non-Aristotelian inevitability of August doubleheaders," he decided to take a fling at acting.
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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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"But I will just take a fling at it anyway."
From Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail by Connor, Ralph
