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单词 fly-by-night
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fly-by-nightadjective [ before noun ]

uk/ˈflaɪ.baɪ.naɪt/us/ˈflaɪ.baɪ.naɪt/informal disapproving

Fly-by-night companies or business people cannot be trusted because they are likely to get into debt and close down the business to avoid paying the debts or satisfying agreements:

a fly-by-night operator/organization

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Dishonest

  • bad faith
  • be rotten to the core idiom
  • be up to no good idiom
  • bent
  • cowboy
  • down-and-dirty
  • dubious
  • false
  • finagle
  • fishy
  • malfeasance
  • mendacious
  • misleading
  • perjure
  • rich
  • underhand
  • unreliable
  • unscrupulous
  • unsporting
  • weasel

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fly-by-nightadjective [ not gradable ]

us/ˈflɑɪ·bɑɪˌnɑɪt/disapproving

(esp. of a business) not able to be trusted, and likely to stop operating without any notice:

a fly-by-night operation

fly-by-nightadjective [ before noun ]

ukusinformal

a fly-by-night business or worker does not offer good products or services and is likely to avoid paying debts or satisfying agreements by leaving the area:

fly-by-night companies/contractors/operators
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