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fly by night

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fly-by-night

[flahy-bahy-nahyt]
–adjective
1. not reliable or responsible, esp. in business; untrustworthy: a fly-by-night operation.
2. not lasting; brief; impermanent; transitory: a fly-by-night theater.
–noun Also, fly-by-nighter.
3. a person or thing that is unreliable, esp. a debtor who evades or attempts to evade creditors.
4. a person regarded as a poor credit risk.

Origin:
1790–1800
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