Synonyms for flies
flies

Princeton's WordNet

1. fliesnoun

   (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)

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1. List of paraphrases for "flies":

   flies, fly, steals, steal, bugs, vole, hovers, flying

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1. Lisa Grossman:

   Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

2. Kenneth Lawson:

   The victims’ attorneys are alleging the government conspired with the defendant’s attorneys to circumvent their rights, this flies in the face of the Crime Victims Rights Act, and it shows bad faith on both parties -- the defendant’s attorneys and the government attorneys.

3. Samsung Electronics:

   Today's decision flies in the face of a unanimous Supreme Court ruling in favor of Samsung on the scope of design patent damages, we will consider all options to obtain an outcome that does not hinder creativity and fair competition for all companies and consumers.

4. Nir Barzilai:

   We’ve been successful to take models like snails, like yeast, like nematodes, like flies, like rats, like monkeys and to extend their healthy life span with either genetic manipulations or manipulations with the environment or with drugs, so we have proven the pre-concept here, again and again.

5. E. B. White:

   You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.