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Dry fly   /draɪ flaɪ/   Listen
Dry fly

noun
1.
A fly (fisherman's lure) that skims the surface of the water.






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"Dry fly" Quotes from Famous Books



... proud of what he did not know as of what he did. Thus, for instance, Froude, a born man of letters, was skilful and accomplished in the employment of metaphors. Freeman could no more handle a metaphor than he could fish with a dry fly. He therefore, without the smallest consciousness of being absurd, condemned Froude for doing what he was unable to do himself, and even wrote, in the name of The Saturday Review, "We are no judges of metaphors," though there ...
— The Life of Froude • Herbert Paul



Words linked to "Dry fly" :   fly, wet fly



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