take a fling
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Says he: "I thought I'd take a fling at it."
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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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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.
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By 1927 he had decided to take a fling at the U.S.
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“Well, when I get a little stronger, maybe I’ll take a fling at it,” said Larry.
From The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room by Chapman, Allen
