fly-by-night

/ˈflʌɪbʌɪnʌɪt/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈflʌɪbʌɪnʌɪt/

flybynight

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

fly - by - night -> fly by night

Myanmar meaning

စိတ်မချရသော။ စိတ်မချရသောသူ။

Full entry

fly¹ /flaÇ / v (pt flew /flu: /; pp flown / flǝƱn /)

၁။ ပျံသန်းသည်။ watch the birds learn to fly
❍ A wasp flew into the room.
၂။ (က) ပျံသန်းသည်။ a plane flying from London to New York ❍ fly at the speed of sound
❍ I can hear a plane flying overhead.
(ခ) လေယာဉ်ခရီးသွားသည်။ လေယာဉ်စီးသည်။ I’m flying to Hong Kong tomorrow. ❍ Is this the first time that you've flown? ❍ TRAVEL
၃။ (က) လေယာဉ်မောင်းသည်။ လေယာဉ်ကို ပျံသန်းသည်။ a pilot trained to fly large passenger aircraft.
(ခ) လေယာဉ်ဖြင့် ပို့ဆောင်သည်။ လေယာဉ်ဖြင့် တင်သည်။ The stranded tourists were finally flown home. ❍ He had flowers specially flown in for the ceremony. (ဂ) ဖြတ်သန်းပျံသန်းသည်။ fly the Atlantic.
၄။ (က) အပြေး အလွှား သွားသည်။ တစ်ဟုန်ထိုး ပြေးသည်။ It's late—I must fly. ❍ The train was flying along. ❍ The dog flew down the road after the cat. (ခ) လွင့်စဉ်သည်။ A large stone came flying (in) through the window. ❍ David gave the door a kick and it flew open. (ဂ) (အချိန်) အလွန် ကုန်လွယ်သည်။ Doesn't time fly?
❍ Summer has just flown by.
၅။ (က) (စွန် စသည်) လွှတ်တင်သည်၊ ပျံသည်။ (ခ) (အလံ) လွှင့်သည်။ fly the Union Jack / Stars and Stripes.
၆။ တလူလူလွင့်သည်။ လွင့်စဉ်သည်။ hair flying (about) in the wind ❍ be hit by flying glass.
၇။ (rhet ) ထွက်ပြေးသည်။ Both suspects have flown the country.
၈။ (ကောလာဟလစသည်) ပျံ့လွင့်သည်။ There are lots of rumours flying (around) at the moment.
n
၁။ [sing] (also flies [pl]) (Brit ) ဘောင်းဘီ ခွဆုံ အထက် လျှာဆက်။ John, your flies are / fly is undone!
၂။ [C] ရွက်ဖျင်တဲဝ ဖျင်စအဖုံး။
❏ fly at sb [PHRV ] ရုတ်တရက် တိုက်ခိုက်သည်။ He flew at me without warning.
❏ fly-away /'flaÇ ǝweÇ / adj (esp of hair) နူးညံ့ပျော့ပျောင်း လွင့်ပါးသော။
❏ fly-by /'flaÇ baÇ / n (pl fly -bys ) (US ) = FLY-PAST
❏ fly-by-night /'flaÇ baÇ naÇt / adj (ဗန်း) ရိုက်စား။ fly-by-night operators.
❏ fly high [IDM ] အောင်မြင်သည်။
❏ fly in the face of sth [IDM ] ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက် ဖြစ်သည်။ ကဏ္ဋကောစလုပ်သည်။ Such a proposal is flying in the face of common sense.
❏ fly into a passion, rage, temper, etc [IDM ] ပေါက်ကွဲသည်။ ယမ်းပုံမီးကျဖြစ်သည်။ He always flies into a rage when he can't have his own way.
❏ fly a kite [IDM ] (Brit infml ) သွေးတိုးစမ်း ကြည့်သည်။
❏ (go) fly a/one's kite [IDM ] (US infml ) (esp imperative) သွားစမ်းကွာ။ အသာနေစမ်းကွာ။
❏ fly off the handle [IDM ] (infml ) ယမ်းပုံ မီးကျဖြစ်သည်။ (ဒေါသ)ပေါက်ကွဲသည်။
❏ fly-past /-pɑ:st; US -pæst / (Brit ) (US fly-by, fly-over) n အလေးပြုပျံသန်းပြခြင်း။ အလှပြ ပျံသန်းခြင်း။
❏ let fly (at sb/sth) (with sth) [IDM ] ထိုးသည်။ ပစ်သည်။ (ဆဲ)လွှတ်သည်။ He let fly at me with his fist. ❍ She let fly (at him) with a stream of abuse.

fly² /flaÇ / n

၁။ ယင်ကောင်။ a house-fly ❍ fly-spray (ie for killing flies). ❍ INSECT See also FRUIT-FLY
၂။ ယင်ကောင်။ ယင်ကောင်ပုံ ငါးစာ။
❏ die / fall / drop like flies [IDM ] တဖြုတ်ဖြုတ်လဲသည်။ People were dropping like flies in the intense heat.
❏ fly-blown adj
ညစ်ပတ်ပေရေနေသော။ Everything in the shop looked rather fly-blown.
❏ fly-fishing n [U] ယင်ကောင်ပုံ ငါးစာပါ ငါးမျှားချိတ်ဖြင့် ငါးမျှားခြင်း။
❏ a/the fly in the ointment [IDM ] သာသနာဖျက်။ ပွဲဖျက်။
❏ a fly on the wall [IDM ] တိတ်တခိုး ချောင်းသူ။ I wish I could be a fly on the wall when they discuss my future.
❏ fly-paper n [U] ယင်ဖမ်းစေးနှဲစက္ကူ။
❏ (there are) no flies on sb [IDM ] (infml ) အနှပ်ခံမည့်သူမဟုတ်။
❏ not harm/hurt a fly [IDM ] ပါးစပ်ထဲ လက်ညှိုး ထည့် တောင် ကိုက်မည့်သူမဟုတ်။ Our dog may look fierce but he wouldn’t hurt a fly.

More examples

Sometimes it’s cheaper to fly.
[fly from/to] : I flew from London to Amsterdam to meet the other members of the group.
[fly into] : We flew into Heathrow on Monday evening.
The bombers were flying over enemy territory.
They flew her home for urgent medical treatment.
[fly someone/something in/out] : Helicopters are helping to fly out survivors.
He had always wanted to learn to fly.
My grandfather flew bombers during the war.
A pilot who flew over 100 missions
I’m flying British Airways this time.
How long does it take to fly the Atlantic?
Not all insects can fly.
[fly past/over/up etc] : A huge eagle came flying past.
White gulls flew over our heads.
[fly past/by/towards/into] : A bullet flew past his head.
Pieces of glass and concrete were flying in all directions.
[fly into/along/through/out] : We flew into each other’s arms.
Sheila flew along the corridor to the control room.
[fly open] : The door flew open and the head teacher marched in.
She stood on the clifftop, her grey hair flying in the wind.
Some of the buildings were flying the French flag.
Every American school has a national flag flying outside it.
Perfect weather for flying kites
[fly by] : Six months flew by, and it was time to come home again.

Synonyms

soar, wing, take wing, take off, flutter, take to the air, a go-go, abscond, all the rage, all there, ant, ants, aphid, arthropod, aviate, avoid, awning cloth, bang up, bang-up, barnstorm, barrel, bedbug, beetle, bend the throttle, bolt, boss, break, breeze, bumblebee, butterflies, butterfly, buzz, canvas, capital, career, centipede, circle, circumnavigate, class, clear, clear out, climb, coast, cockroach, control, cootie, cross, cut and run, daddy longlegs, dandy, dart, dash, decamp, disappear, dive, dragonfly, dressed to kill, dressed to the teeth, drift, elapse, escape, faddy, fashionable, first class, five-star, flap, flat-hat, flea, flee, fleet, flit, float, fly the coop, fox, foxes, fruit fly, get a move on, get away, glide, gnat, go like the wind, goer, grasshopper, hanging together, hangings, hasten, hasten away, hide, high class, hightail, holding together, holding up in wash, holding water, hop, hornet, hover, hunky dory, hunky-dory, hurry, hustle, in, in fashion, in good taste, in style, in the mainstream, in thing, in-thing, insect, jet, jet out, jet over, ladybug, lapel, light out, make a getaway, make a quick exit, make off, maneuver, midge, mosquito, moth, mount, operate, pass, pendant, pendulosity, pest, pilot, praying mantis, race, reach, remain aloft, rodent, roll, run, run away, run for it, run from, run its course, run off, rush, sail, sailcloth, scamper, scoot, scud, seagull, sharp, shoot, skedaddle, skim, skip, skirt, sky out, slip away, smart, snappy, sound, speed, spider

Antonyms

allow, arrive, confront, dally, dawdle, decelerate, delay, face, land, meet, obey, open, procrastinate, remain, rest, slow, stand your ground, stay, stay on ground, wait, walk