have a fling at
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At 28, she packed up her two daughters and took off for London, there to try the flamboyant high-and-low life her heroines always have a fling at.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has found time to tour Sweden, visit his father in Moscow, have a fling at Hollywood, build the sets for the London production of Waltzes from Vienna.
From Time Magazine Archive
This surprising state of affairs had its beginning last spring when the staid Globe-Democrat decided to have a fling at big-time circulation promotion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gough, on the watch to have a fling at George Steevens, attacked his graphic performance, and reprobated a portrait which had nothing human in it!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
They procured Keil, the professor of astronomy, in so grave a work as “The Theory of the Earth,” to have a fling at Bentley’s boasted sagacity in conjectural criticism.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
