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Mr. Tom Posted 7 years ago
Vocabulary

Let fly

Hi

Is the idiom let fly fairly common in everyday English?

let fly = become very angry, attack someone

She let fly at me when she got to know the truth.

Thanks,

Tom

  

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I think it is common enough, maybe more common when it stands alone: "She tore into me when she found out, but she didn't really let fly until I admitted it."

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There's nothing wrong with it. I would not say that its usage in British English is fairly common. I would tend to attribute it to an educated or well-read person. Other possibilities (among many) are:

to let rip

to let someone have it

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I'm a native English speaker in the US, and I've never used the phrase in my life. And I've come across it, maybe twice, and only in sentences having to do with speech, like:


"He let fly with a stream of the worst possible invective."

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I've never used "wig out" in my life. But it's fairly popular in the US, because the word "wig" has many comical associations.

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