fly-by-night

/flahy-bahy-nahyt/US // ˈflaɪ baɪˌnaɪt //UK // informal //

飞来横祸,蝇头小利,飞来横财,蝇头小利的人

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : not reliable or responsible, especially in business; untrustworthy: a fly-by-night operation.
- : not lasting; brief; impermanent; transitory: a fly-by-night theater.

n.名词 noun

1
Also fly-by-nighter.
- : a person or thing that is unreliable, especially a debtor who evades or attempts to evade creditors.
- : a person regarded as a poor credit risk.

adj.unreliable and shady

Synonyms

People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.
On Dec. 22, 1799, Sands told her cousins that she would be leaving to elope with a fellow boarder named Levi Weeks that night.
As of Thursday night, the brothers remained on the loose, last seen in northern France.
At the moment, the only chance I get is when I go do Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Are you bi-coastal now, between Portlandia and Late Night with Seth Meyers?
The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.
Without preface, he abruptly asked, what had been told him of the Duke of Wharton's behaviour the preceding night.
Nevertheless the evening and the night passed away without incident.
All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
While they were doing this, he assembled the officers around him, and the meaning of our night march was explained to us.

/flahy-bahy-nahyt/US // ˈflaɪ baɪˌnaɪt //UK // informal //

飞来横祸,蝇头小利,飞来横财,蝇头小利的人

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : not reliable or responsible, especially in business; untrustworthy: a fly-by-night operation.
- : not lasting; brief; impermanent; transitory: a fly-by-night theater.

n.名词 noun

1
Also fly-by-nighter.
- : a person or thing that is unreliable, especially a debtor who evades or attempts to evade creditors.
- : a person regarded as a poor credit risk.

adj.unreliable and shady

Synonyms

People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.
On Dec. 22, 1799, Sands told her cousins that she would be leaving to elope with a fellow boarder named Levi Weeks that night.
As of Thursday night, the brothers remained on the loose, last seen in northern France.
At the moment, the only chance I get is when I go do Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Are you bi-coastal now, between Portlandia and Late Night with Seth Meyers?
The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.
Without preface, he abruptly asked, what had been told him of the Duke of Wharton's behaviour the preceding night.
Nevertheless the evening and the night passed away without incident.
All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
While they were doing this, he assembled the officers around him, and the meaning of our night march was explained to us.