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take a flier

take a flier is the alternative form of take a flyer.

Meaning of take a flyer

Verb

take a flyer (third-person singular simple present takes a flyer, present participle taking a flyer, simple past took a flyer, past participle taken a flyer)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, flyer.
  2. (idiomatic) To invest against odds.
    • The oldest girls are eagerly perusing the financial reports, for a certain young man remarked last Sunday night that he had taken a flyer in Q., X. & Z.1906, O. Henry, Man About Town
  3. (idiomatic) To make a choice with an uncertain outcome; to take a chance.
    • Many voters said that while they liked Reform, they remembered having taken a flyer on Bob Rae and the NDP, a gamble they had come to regret.1997, Edward Greenspon, “Following the Trail of Campaign '97”, in Alan Frizzell, Jon H. Pammett, editors, The Canadian General Election of 1997, Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 36

Forms of take a flier

third-person singular presenttakes a flier
present participletaking a flier
pasttook a flier
past participletaken a flier

Questions about take a flier

What is take a flier the alternative form of?
Take a flier is the alternative form of take a flyer.

Words near take a flier in the dictionary

  1. take a dump
  2. take a fall
  3. take a fall out of
  4. take a fancy to
  5. take a five
  6. take a flier
  7. take a flutter
  8. take a flyer
  9. take a flying fuck
  10. take a flying fuck at a rolling donut
  11. take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut

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