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Discharge a missile or fire a weapon; also, attack verbally. For example, He let fly a rotten egg at the speaker , or They let fly some insults laced with four-letter words . The first usage dates from about a.d. 1000, the second from the late 1500s.

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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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