take a fling
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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.
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Most professional money managers, Merrill Lynch's included, have been sensibly enough urging investors anxious to take a fling in the market to put their money into stocks of blue-chip companies.
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By 1927 he had decided to take a fling at the U.S.
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Now 70 and living in Southern California, Dame Judith Anderson has decided to take a fling at a slightly different role.
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"But I will just take a fling at it anyway."
From Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail by Connor, Ralph
