take a fling
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As an actor in church plays, he had been bitten by the theatrical bug, longed to take a fling at more serious acting.
From Time Magazine Archive
By 1927 he had decided to take a fling at the U.S.
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, at 30, bored with the "non-Aristotelian inevitability of August doubleheaders," he decided to take a fling at acting.
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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
