fly on

Verb

Meaning

continue flying

Source: WordNet

Hypernyms

fly wing

Examples

I would trade all the advantages of humanity to be a fly on the wall when Franklin and Jefferson discussed liberty, Lenin and Trotsky revolution, Newton and Halley the shape of the universe, or when Darwin entertained Huxley and Lyell at Down. Stephen Jay Gould

So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. Richard Branson

I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours. Sarah Waters

Sandra let her words fly on an arrow of certainty. "I know the whereabouts of a bona fide extra terrestrial." Vanna Bonta

The fly on the back of a water buffalo thinks that it's taller than the buffalo. Filipino Proverb

It is easy to see the fly on the other person's nose, while ignoring the horse on your own. Tibetan Proverb

Close letter words and terms

fly off at a tangent fly off the handle fly off the shelves fly on the wall fly open fly orchid