ADJECTIVE
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(of businesses and businessmen) untrustworthy or undependable
a fly-by-night operation -
ephemeral
the symphony is no fly-by-night venture
NOUN
- a debtor who flees to avoid paying
How To Use fly-by-night In A Sentence
- Some are fly-by-nighters who don't even care where the buttons are.
- Sometimes the counterfeiters are fly-by-night operations, but just as often they're legitimate companies that have a dark side.
- If you have a storefront, post its address along with a telephone number for those who want more than a virtual connection or assurance that you're no fly-by-night operation.
- Excessive controls and interference in private education institutions could encourage fly-by-night operators.
- a fly-by-night operation
- I understand that, and let that be accepted, but we have to test your propositions and those of the appellant against what Justice McHugh called the fly-by-nights, and they exist, Mr Tracey.
- I leased out part of the shop to a mixed bag of fly-by-nighters.
- During the period of active Y2K remediation last year, much was made of the possibility that unscrupulous, fly-by-night contractors might install back doors to networks they were engaged to repair.
- In a world of fly-by-night operations, this is a long-term investment..
- And the fly-by-nights they are worried about are not moths.