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That outfit is running a fly-by-night operation.例文帳に追加
あの会社は先行き不安な商売をしています。 - Tatoeba例文
That outfit is running a fly-by-night operation.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
あの会社は先行き不安な商売をしています。 - Tanaka Corpus
Some fly-by-night profit-making schools might cease to exist.例文帳に追加
目先の金儲け主義の学校のなかには絶えるものもある。 - 旅行・ビジネス英会話翻訳例文
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Wiktionary英語版での「fly‐by‐night」の英訳 |
fly by night
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2010/09/03 16:46 UTC 版)
名詞
fly-by-night (複数形 fly-by-nights)
- A creatures which flies at night; a nocturnal flier or traveler.
- One who departs or flees at night in order to avoid creditors, law enforcement etc. (often used attributively).
- Do not give your credit card number to that fly-by-night operation.
- (idiomatic, derogatory) Businesses that appear and disappear rapidly, or that give an impression of transience.
- (idiomatic, derogatory) Traveling businessmen and tradesmen.
fly-by-night
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名詞
fly-by-night (複数形 fly-by-nights)
- A creature which flies at night; a nocturnal flier or traveler.
- (often attributive) One who departs or flees at night in order to avoid creditors, law enforcement etc.
- (idiomatic, derogatory) A person or business that appears and/or disappears rapidly, appearing untrustworthy, or giving an impression of transience.
- 1917, Rose Wilder Lane, chapter 22, in Henry Ford’s Own Story:
- The automobile industry rose almost overnight. Orders poured into the offices of companies already organized; new companies were formed by dozens, capitalized at millions of dollars. Fly-by-night concerns sprang up like mushrooms, flooded the country with stock-selling schemes, established factories where parts of motor cars, bought elsewhere, were assembled.
- 1998 January 24, Bill Clinton, Presidential Radio Address[1]:
- Second, it will ensure that when fly-by-night providers go bankrupt, Medicare is at the top of the list of debts to be repaid. And finally, it will bring down costs by allowing Medicare to purchase goods and services at a competitive price.
- (idiomatic, derogatory) A traveling businessman or tradesman.
使用する際の注意点
The phrase implies that the quality of work done or goods sold is shoddy enough that the person responsible must leave town under cover of darkness to evade angry customers, or sometimes legal authorities. The earliest use of the phrase is said to have been a reproach for women, signifying that she was a witch.[1] The modern usage first appeared in 1823.[1]
参照
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “fly-by-night” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
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