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Roddenberry, Gene
(Encyclopedia) Roddenberry, Gene (Eugene Wesley Roddenberry), 1921–91, American television writer and producer, b. El Paso, Tex. After being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal…Étaix, Pierre
(Encyclopedia) Étaix, Pierre, 1928–2016, French film actor and director. He excelled at highly physical slapstick comedy, influenced by his background as a circus and cabaret performer, and by Buster…Fly Away Home
Director: Carroll Ballard Writers: Robert Rodat and Vince McKewin Director of Photography: Caleb Deschanel Editor: Nicholas C. Smith Music: Mark Isham Production Designer…Brewer's: Fly-boy
The boy in a printing-office who lifts the printed sheets off the press. He is called the fly-boy because he catches the sheets as they fly from the tympan (q.v.) immediately the frisket (…Brewer's: Fly a Kite
(To). To send a begging letter to persons of a charitable reputation, or in easy circumstances, to solicit pecuniary aid, urging poverty, losses, or sickness as an excuse. (See Kite-Flying…Brewer's: Fly Open
(To). To open suddenly, as, “the doors flew open,” “les portes s'ouvrirent,” as they do sometimes by the force of the wind. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Fly Out at
(To). To burst or break into a passion. The Latin, involvo in ... “Poor choleric Sir Brian would fly out at his coachman, his butler, or his gamekeeper, and use language ... which ... from…Brewer's: Flying Colours
(To come off with). In triumph; with the flags unfurled and flying. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Flying DutchmanFly Out at A B C D E F G H I J K…Brewer's: Flying Dutchman
A spectral ship, seen in stormy weather off the Cape of Good Hope, and considered ominous of ill-luck. Sir Walter Scott says she was originally a vessel laden with precious metal, but a…Brewer's: Gad-fly
is not the roving but the goading fly. (Anglo-Saxon, gad, a goad.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Gad-steelGad-about A B C D E F G H I J K L M…Trending
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