take a fling

"Well, now, have you come round to take a fling at me?" said the girl, with more of terror than anger in her voice.

Well, said I, I'm not much of a dabster at it, but if the stake ain't high, I don't care if I do take a fling or two; so down we set to it, and they pulled out their cards for loo.

"Oh, they may take a fling, and write something just to be different, but they take another look and blame it on 'drinking too much the night before.'"

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.

They had left Madison, where he had been an appliance salesman, less than four years ago, going $380,000 into debt to take a fling at farming with hogs, cattle and corn.