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Yavin4

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Thu Oct 8, 2020, 12:44 AM Oct 2020

Ever heard that saying: "No flies on you"?

no flies on one
One is wide awake; there is nothing slow or dull about one. For example, She may be new to this field, but there are no flies on her. This slangy expression, which alludes to flies settling on a sluggish animal, was being used in Australia in the 1840s but did not appear in America until the last decades of the 1800s.


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Ever heard that saying: "No flies on you"? (Original Post) Yavin4 Oct 2020 OP
I learned it as "There ain't no bugs on me" csziggy Oct 2020 #1
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