- catch flies
- Vrb phrs. To look blankly with one's mouth open.
English slang and colloquialisms. 2014.
catch flies
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catch flies — verb An ostensible product of awkwardly having ones mouth open wide. Youd better close your mouth; are you trying to catch flies? … Wiktionary
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Cobwebs to Catch Flies — A typical page from an early Marshall edition Cobwebs to Catch Flies (1783) is a children s book by Ellenor Fenn, originally anonymous, but later editions were advertised as being by Mrs Teachwell or Mrs Lovechild . It was a reading primer and… … Wikipedia
catch — see you cannot catch old birds with chaff it doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice a cat in gloves catches no mice a drowning man will clutch at a straw eagles don’t catch flies … Proverbs new dictionary
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Catch-22 — from the title of Joseph Heller s 1961 novel. In widespread use only after release of movie based on the book in 1970. The catch is that a bomber pilot is insane if he flies combat missions without asking to be relieved from duty, and is thus… … Etymology dictionary
catch|fly — «KACH FLY», noun, plural flies. a plant of the pink family whose sticky stem and calyx are able to catch small insects … Useful english dictionary
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