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Radical: 虫
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a headless fly, someone who acts recklessly without a plan
(adj.) to describe a place where the business is very quiet / slow, with hardly any customers; literally 'squatting flies to kill time'.
Flypaper
(noun) (insect) a fly
a flyswatter
(Cantonese analogy - figurative meaning) to break a partnership; to blow up a relation.
horsefly; cleg
(act like) a headless chicken
tiny profit
botfly;horse flies
to not have absolutely no customers in a restaurant / shop / business; to have absolutely no business [colloquial]
Spanish fly (Lytta vesicatoria) [written and colloquial]
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