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Hrsanei Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Looking for an idiom

hi.

When somebody's pants' zip is open, we can tell him to zip up. but I have heard an idiom for it with the word fly.

Does anyone know what it is.

Thanks
  

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Hi I'm not sure of what you mean, but I usually use fasten instead of zip up. Like fasten your pants or bag. LB

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  • Hi I'm not sure of what you mean, but I usually use fasten instead of zip up.
  • Like fasten your pants or bag.
  • LB
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Hi

I'm not sure of what you mean, but I usually use fasten instead of zip up. Like fasten your pants or bag.

LB
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hrsaneiWhen somebody's pants' zipper is open, ...
= When somebody's fly is open, ...

fly is just another word for the same thing. I'm not aware of any idioms involving this meaning of fly.

fly, noun

...

4: something attached by one edge: as a :
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I once knew a choral director of a group of old men, and he always cautioned them before a public appearance, "XYZ," for "Examine your zipper."

Edit. A quick zip through the net turned up one I hadn't heard for years:
You're flying low . . . . without a license.

A poster claimed it was the most popular one in BrE.
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Thanks Jim.

Thanks Avangi.

In a movie there was a scene in which the zipper of a man's pants was open and his friend signaled him to zip up his pants but the man didn't get the signal, so his friend shout loudly sth like fly up, fly up.

I am not sure if it was fly up or sth like that.

have you heard about fly up ?

Thanks
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That makes sense as "put your fly up" = zip up your pants.
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