fly-by-night | Amarkosh

Meaning of word fly-by-night from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

Meaning : A debtor who flees to avoid paying.

Meaning : (of businesses and businessmen) untrustworthy or undependable.

Example : A fly-by-night operation.

Meaning : Ephemeral.

Example : The symphony is no fly-by-night venture.

demolish (verb)
Destroy completely.

dispose (verb)
Give, sell, or transfer to another.

ordnance store (noun)
Military supplies.

precursor (noun)
A substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction).

guff (noun)
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements).

cockroach (noun)
Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects. Some are domestic pests.

telescope (verb)
Crush together or collapse.

with child (adjective)
In an advanced stage of pregnancy.

blow up (verb)
Cause to burst with a violent release of energy.

most (adjective)
(superlative of `many' used with count nouns and often preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the greatest in number.