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fly" (alternatively, "pigs might fly") is an adynaton—a figure of speech so hyperbolic that it describes an impossibility. The implication of such a phrase...

The Fly is a 1986 American science fiction body horror film directed and co-written by David Cronenberg. Produced by Brooksfilms and distributed by 20th...

Bar with The Somethings as a support group. On 31 May 2009, McFly performed at the biggest TV show in Brazil Domingão do Faustão which had a predicted audience...

Fly biting (also called fly catching or fly snapping) refers to a type of dog behavior: episodes of intentional focused biting at the air, as if the dog...

An artificial fly or fly lure is a type of fishing lure, usually used in the sport of fly fishing (although they may also be used in other forms of angling)...

denote that a given event is impossible or extremely unlikely to occur. As a response to an unlikely proposition, "when pigs fly", "when pigs have wings",...

Stinging Fly moved into book publishing with the establishment of The Stinging Fly Press. The magazine has been described as "something of a revelation...

"Learn to Fly" is a song by American rock band Foo Fighters. It was released as the lead single from their third studio album There Is Nothing Left to...

screwworm flies share many characteristics of the common house fly. When keying out a dipteran specimen, it is important to first note whether bristles...

"Fly Me to the Moon", originally titled "In Other Words", is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard. The first recording of the song was made in 1954 by...

The Boy Who Could Fly is a 1986 American fantasy drama film written and directed by Nick Castle. It was produced by Lorimar Productions for 20th Century...

“by default, something is true”; by contrast, standard logic can only express that something is true or that something is false. This is a problem because...

describing fly tying techniques often use an image of a salmon fly to describe all the parts of an artificial fly. The typical fly pattern appears something like...

the radio on May 11, 1998, "Fly Away" peaked at number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Outside of the United States, "Fly Away" topped the charts in Iceland...

other territories, for a worldwide total of $103.5 million. In the United States and Canada, Longlegs was released alongside Fly Me to the Moon, and was...

A fly system, or theatrical rigging system, is a system of ropes, pulleys, counterweights and related devices within a theater that enables a stage crew...

Fly by Night is the second studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released on February 14, 1975, by Mercury Records. It was the first Rush album...

lead character of the series is Marty McFly. During the course of the trilogy, he travels through time using a DeLorean time machine invented by his friend...

monkey's eyebrows", or it may be a deliberate inversion of the earlier attested singular "bee's knee" used to refer to something small or insignificant. Alludes...

a n ) {\displaystyle {\mathcal {B}}_{Lois}Fly_{(Superman)}} Premise 2: B L o i s ¬ F l y ( C l a r k ) {\displaystyle {\mathcal {B}}_{Lois}\neg Fly_{(Clark)}}...