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Meanings of
fly-catching
in English
Feeding strategy in birds involving catching flying insects in the air.
hawking
sallying
flycatching
Related terms
behavior
feeding behavior
Usage of
fly-catching
in English
1
The flashing alertness of a
fly-catching
lizard, is it not proverbial?
2
I was also sick of its
fly
-
catching
abilities and the cloying scent of watermelon.
3
Then Bunch, grave as a judge, began to repeat: 'Plate-snatching, gravy-spilling, door-slamming, blue-bottle-
fly-catching
,
and curtsey-bobbing.
4
The kitchen was alive with flies, at least half of them still struggling on the long sticky
fly
-
catching
paper that hung around the room.
5
I found a singular moth- and
fly-catching
,
plant in this range; it exudes a gummy substance, by which insects become attached to the leaves.
6
Then he went, but returned and said: "There's no water in the bucket-Motherused the last drop to boil th' punkins," and renewed the
fly-catching
.
7
"They've landed below here, and maybe they're in town while we've got our mouths open,
fly-catching
around an empty car."
8
"I am tired of scrabbling in the dust, and
fly-catching
is an amusement only suited to sparrows and such vulgar birds."
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Frequent collocations
fly-catching lizard
renew the fly-catching
Fly-catching
through the time