on the wing

Speech parts

1. on the wing - Adverb

2. on the wing - Phrase

Meaning

flying through the air

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

in flight volant wheeling active flying floating winged gliding drifting soaring flapping errant on the go airborne in the air
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Antonyms

living remaining fixed coming entering resident
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Examples

Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn God's in his heaven- All's right with the world. Robert Browning

A book is like a man clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun. John Steinbeck

I have felt the wind on the wing of madness. Charles Baudelaire

Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter - and the Bird is on the Wing. Omar Khayyám

A sparrow in the hand is better than a bustard on the wing. Spanish Proverb

A sparrow in the hand is better than a crane on the wing. French Proverb

Words in the phrase

on the wing

Close letter words and terms

on the web on the whole on the wind on the wings of the wind on the wrong foot on the wrong side of history