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last fling
Idioms and Phrases
A final enjoyment of freedom. For example, He's planning to have one last fling before joining the army . This expression employs fling in the sense of “a brief period of indulging one's impulses,” a usage dating from the first half of the 1800s.Example Sentences
“This is my last fling for baseball,” he said that day.
“This is my last fling for baseball,” the 93-year-old Thomas said.
Whatever happens, I’d say it’s 98 percent he ends up his career as a Nat, not going somewhere else for one last fling.
As a final gift, I would like to give her one last fling with a young stud.
This brightness, this long spell of sunny days, was history’s last fling before another stretch of time began.
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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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