take a flyer
Example Sentences
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He has that kind of upside and you could take a flyer on him this week.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2025
They’ll take a flyer and put the burden of scrapping and scraping to the Pentagon’s budgeteers.
From Slate • Mar. 12, 2024
The easy answer is that these people all have too much money, so these millions are just pocket change to them anyway and can take a flyer.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2023
Though there’s a chance Washington’s brass could fall for a prospect or take a flyer on a later-round developmental type, the team is likely out of the range to draft this year’s top signal-callers.
From Washington Times • Feb. 15, 2023
“And I wouldn’t want you to speak for them, either. It’s just that earlier—when Mr. Hooks was questioning you?—you seemed happy to do so, Mrs. Heine. So I thought I’d take a flyer myself.”
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
