House-fly
81House cricket — Taxobox name = House cricket image width = 260px image caption = Male Acheta domesticus regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Orthoptera familia = Gryllidae subfamilia = Gryllinae genus = Acheta species = A. domesticus… …
82Fly paper — Paper Pa per (p[=a] p[ e]r), n. [F. papier, fr. L. papyrus papyrus, from which the Egyptians made a kind of paper, Gr. pa pyros. Cf. {Papyrus}.] 1. A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be… …
83fly bridge — noun the highest navigational bridge on a ship; a small (often open) deck above the pilot house • Syn: ↑flying bridge, ↑flybridge, ↑monkey bridge • Hypernyms: ↑bridge, ↑bridge deck * * * fly bridge, a platform on top of a c …
84fly one wing low — to be drunk RAF slang from the Second World War referring to a damaged plane: ... half the officers in the club house were flying one wing low. (Deighton, 1982) …
85fly off the handle — informal to react in a very angry way to something someone says or does. He really flew off the handle when I suggested selling the house …
86fly the coop — mainly American to leave somewhere, especially to leave your home for the first time in order to live away from the family. The last of our kids has finally flown the coop so we have the whole house to ourselves …
87Stable fly — Stable Sta ble, n. [OF. estable, F. [ e]table, from L. stabulum, fr. stare to stand. See {Stand}, v. i.] A house, shed, or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; esp., a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow …
88Cabbage root fly — Taxobox name = Cabbage root fly image caption = Delia radicum regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta subclassis = Pterygota infraclassis = Neoptera superordo = Endopterygota| ordo = Diptera subordo = Brachycera infraordo =… …
89flesh fly — any fly of the family Sarcophagidae, comprising species that deposit their eggs or larvae in carrion or in the flesh of living animals. [1275 1325; ME] * * * ▪ insect any member of a family of insects in the fly order, Diptera, that are similar… …
90stable fly — noun a) Any of several large flies, of the family Muscidae is that it sucks blood from mammals. b) Stomoxys calcitrans. Syn: barn fly, dog fly, pwer mower fly, biting house fly …
