英语词汇“fly-by-night”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

fly-by-night

/ˈflʌɪbʌɪnʌɪt

adjective [attributive]

Unreliable or untrustworthy, especially in business or financial matters: cheap suits made by fly-by-night operators...

‘We must crack down on fly-by-night operators who set up premium-rate line services, only to disappear days later before the regulator has a chance to investigate complaints,’ he said.
Excessive controls and interference in private education institutions could encourage fly-by-night operators.
There are 1,200 such homes in the country but there are also fly-by-night operators.

Synonyms

unreliable, undependable, irresponsible, untrustworthy;

dishonest, deceitful, not to be trusted, dubious, double-dealing, treacherous, traitorous, two-faced, unfaithful, duplicitous, dishonourable, unprincipled, unscrupulous, corrupt, underhand

informal iffy, shady, shifty, slippery, crooked

British informal dodgy, bent

Australian/New Zealand informal shonky

noun

(also fly-by-nighter) An unreliable or untrustworthy person.If we get knocked it will be by fly-by-nights, not by those who have supported us over all these years....

The company is an internet based recruitment service, one of the many but long established and from what I knew of them before today quite a good one - definitely not fly-by-nights.
But these are just episodes, mere fly-by-nights.

单词	fly-by-night
释义	fly-by-night /ˈflʌɪbʌɪnʌɪt / adjective [attributive] Unreliable or untrustworthy, especially in business or financial matters: cheap suits made by fly-by-night operators... ‘We must crack down on fly-by-night operators who set up premium-rate line services, only to disappear days later before the regulator has a chance to investigate complaints,’ he said. Excessive controls and interference in private education institutions could encourage fly-by-night operators. There are 1,200 such homes in the country but there are also fly-by-night operators. Synonyms unreliable, undependable, irresponsible, untrustworthy; dishonest, deceitful, not to be trusted, dubious, double-dealing, treacherous, traitorous, two-faced, unfaithful, duplicitous, dishonourable, unprincipled, unscrupulous, corrupt, underhand informal iffy, shady, shifty, slippery, crooked British informal dodgy, bent Australian/New Zealand informal shonky noun (also fly-by-nighter) An unreliable or untrustworthy person.If we get knocked it will be by fly-by-nights, not by those who have supported us over all these years.... The company is an internet based recruitment service, one of the many but long established and from what I knew of them before today quite a good one - definitely not fly-by-nights. But these are just episodes, mere fly-by-nights.
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