take a fling
Example Sentences
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In 1933, with his factory grown to ten employees in bigger quarters adjoining the drugstore, Joyce decided to take a fling at playshoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, at 30, bored with the "non-Aristotelian inevitability of August doubleheaders," he decided to take a fling at acting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Armed with her mother's Southern recipe for pickled beans, a North Carolinian named Sonya Hagna, 24, decided to give up her New Jersey schoolteaching job in 1958 and take a fling at pickling.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was on the way back from St. Chamond a few days later when a messenger clambered into his compartment at Dijon with President Auriol's invitation to take a fling at forming a government.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bully boy! now you’re going to take a fling, and here’s wishing you the greatest of luck!”
From The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line Or, With the Allies in France by Marlow, Ralph
