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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Fly a Kite (To). To send a begging letter to persons of a charitable reputation, or in easy circumstances, to solicit pecuniary aid, urging poverty, losses, or sickness as an excuse. (See Kite-Flying.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Borrowing | Raise money, take up money; raise the wind; fly a kite, borrow from Peter to pay Paul; run into debt; (debt). |
Credit | Place to one's credit, credit to one's account, place to one's account; give credit, take credit; fly a kite. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Go Fly a Kite (1974) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
Expression using "FLY A KITE": To fly a kite. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
go fly a kite | 59 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FLY A KITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | einen Drachen steigen lassen (to fly a kite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tapogatózik (to fly a kite, to grope, to send up a kite), sárkányt ereget (to fly a kite, to send up a kite), fedezetlen csekket bocsát ki (to fly a kite, to kite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 凧'あ'る (to fly a kite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | た"'あ'る (to fly a kite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yflay aay itekay înãlţa un zmeu. (various references) flyga med en drake, skicka ut en trevare, skaffa pengar på en växel. (various references) แพร่ออกไป (give out). (various references) uçurtma uçurmak, karşılıksız çek vermek, ağız aramak (fish for information, pump, put out a feeler, sound out smb., take a sounding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-k-l-t-y" | |
-1 letter: fatlike. | |
-2 letters: fealty, featly, fetial, flakey, talkie. | |
-3 letters: alike, fakey, fatly, fetal, filet, fitly, flake, flaky, flite, flyte, kalif, kilty, laity, latke, leafy, leaky, lefty, talky, telia, tilak. | |
-4 letters: alef, alif, alit, alky, fail, fake, fate, feal, feat, felt, feta, fiat, fila, file, flak, flat, flay, flea, fley, flit, fyke, ikat, ilea, ilka, kaif. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-k-l-t-y" | |
+3 letters: factorylike. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Expressions 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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