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Discharge a missile or fire a weapon; also, attack verbally. For example, He let fly a rotten egg at the speaker, or They let fly some insults laced with four-letter words. The first usage dates from about a.d. 1000, the second from the late 1500s. Words nearby let flylet daylight through or into, letdown, let down easy, let down one's hair, let drop, let fly, let go, let grass grow, Letha, lethal, lethal chamber The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to let flyhasten, trigger, accelerate, expedite, shoot, express, relay, grant, post, drop, deliver, dispatch, fire, address, forward, commit, ship, issue, assign, circulate |