no flies on (one) Idioma

set (one) back

cost How much did your new suit set you back?

give (one) up for|give|give one up for|give up|giv

v. phr. To abandon hope for someone or something. After Larry had not returned to base camp for three nights, his fellow mountain climbers gave him up for dead.

keep (one) posted|keep one posted|keep posted

v. phr. To receive current information; inform oneself. My associates phoned me every day and kept me posted on new developments in our business.

no flies on (one)

One is actual alive or works at a fast pace. Alludes to the abstraction that flies do not or cannot achieve on fast-moving animals. There are absolutely no flies on Judy. She works so fast that the blow of her aggregation can't accumulate up with her.Learn more: flies, no, on

no flies on someone

Fig. addition is not slow; addition is not crumbling time. (On the angel of flies not actuality able to acreage on addition affective fast.) Of advance I assignment fast. I go as fast as I can. There are no flies on me. There are no flies on Robert. He does his assignment actual fast and actual well.Learn more: flies, no, on

There's no flies on someone

. Rur. Addition is abounding of activity and drive. There's no flies on Jane. She's up at bristles every morning, training for the big race.Learn more: flies, no, on

no flies on one

One is advanced awake; there is annihilation apathetic or addled about one. For example, She may be new to this field, but there are no flies on her. This slangy expression, which alludes to flies clearing on a apathetic animal, was actuality acclimated in Australia in the 1840s but did not arise in America until the aftermost decades of the 1800s. Learn more: flies, no, on, one

there are no flies on someone

If you say there are no flies on someone, you beggarly that they are quick to accept a bearings and are not calmly deceived. Oh, he was a acute one, all right. There were no flies on him.Learn more: flies, no, on, someone, there

there are no flies on —

the actuality mentioned is actual quick and astute. Early instances of this announcement advance that it originated with advertence to beasts who were so alive that no flies acclimatized on them. The byword was acclaimed in the mid 19th aeon as actuality actual accepted in Australia as a accepted announcement of approbation. In the USA it could additionally be acclimated to back that the actuality in catechism was of above ancestry or behaved honestly.Learn more: flies, no, on, there

(there are) no flies on somebody

(informal)
1 somebody is not brainless and accordingly cannot be tricked or bamboozled easily: You can’t aloof acquaint her that you’ve absent the money; she’ll never accept you. There are no flies on Jane, you know.
2 somebody is accomplished or able at accomplishing something: There are no flies on Jim. He can actuate anybody to buy a car from him.Learn more: flies, no, on, somebody

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