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go fly a kite
Idioms and Phrases
Also, go chase yourself or climb a tree or jump in the lake or sit on a tack or soak your head . Go away and stop bothering me, as in Quit it, go fly a kite , or Go jump in the lake . All of these somewhat impolite colloquial imperatives date from the first half of the 1900s and use go as described under go and .Example Sentences
“The One I Love” and “I’ll See You Home,” popular in the early 1900s, fell out of fashion long ago, along with “Go Fly a Kite” and “Excuse My Dust.”
On Saturday morning, as “Let’s Go Fly a Kite” from “Mary Poppins” played on the loudspeakers, Gay Days participants streamed into Disney World.
The piano player started into “Let’s Go Fly a Kite,” and we began to sing.
“Go fly a kite” means anything but the brush-off in the new TV movie “High Flying Romance.”
Community & Unity Kite Festival Go fly a kite at this family-friendly event featuring kite-flying demos, arts and crafts workshops, live music and more.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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