flit
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1. flit - Noun
2. flit - Adjective
3. flit - Verb
Meaning
To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.
To flutter; to rove on the wing.
To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.
To remove from one place or habitation to another.
Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.
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Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.
What it turns out is that we think we're multitasking, but we're not. The brain is sequential tasking: we flit from one thought to the next very, very rapidly, giving us the illusion that what we're doing is doing all these things at once.
He that winna thole maun flit mony a hole.
Better rue sit than rue flit.
He wad gang a mile to flit a sow.