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fly-by-night

ADJECTIVE
  1. (of businesses and businessmen) untrustworthy or undependable
    a fly-by-night operation
  2. ephemeral
    the symphony is no fly-by-night venture
NOUN
  1. 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.
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