take a fling
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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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They had left Madison, where he had been an appliance salesman, less than four years ago, going $380,000 into debt to take a fling at farming with hogs, cattle and corn.
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Now 70 and living in Southern California, Dame Judith Anderson has decided to take a fling at a slightly different role.
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Says he: "I thought I'd take a fling at it."
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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