Timeline for What's the meaning of "let it fly" in this context?
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| Oct 17, 2018 at 16:59 | comment | added | Lambie | @Nicole Yes,thank goodness. No one shot the dove. Geesus, how awful that would be. If you cradle your gun, this has to refer to the dove flying away. Nothing else. | |
| Apr 8, 2017 at 13:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/850700185462345732 | ||
| Apr 6, 2017 at 22:20 | comment | added | Nicole | Your teacher is wrong. In this context, he lets the dove escape. | |
| Apr 4, 2017 at 3:54 | answer | added | Yin | timeline score: 5 | |
| S Apr 1, 2017 at 11:56 | history | edited | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 20:41 | comment | added | Hot Licks | At first I thought the meaning intended was to "let fly" with the shotgun, but on rereading I believe that Nate let the bird fly. You don't "cradle" a shotgun as you shoot it -- "cradling" a gun is basically holding it across your chest with the barrel cradled by one elbow. And it would be more idiomatic to say "lets fly" to imply shooting the weapon. It is rather clumsily written. | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 20:29 | answer | added | Bali | timeline score: -1 | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 17:51 | answer | added | Rio1210 | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 17:28 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 17:18 | answer | added | Xanne | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 17:18 | comment | added | vickyace | @kttii You're right. I just did it to help the OP understand. | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 17:15 | comment | added | kttii | @vickyace I wouldn't agree with the statement "in an angry way" ... I suggest that 'letting it fly' in that context is "reckless" or "without concern". | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 17:12 | answer | added | Hellion | timeline score: 23 | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 17:06 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | The shooter would have to be lucky, not the dove, to hit the dove so far away. | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 17:00 | history | edited | Hellion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 16:52 | comment | added | vickyace | Do these comments answer your questions? | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 16:51 | comment | added | vickyace | Your confusion is justified but in most cases that doesn't include any flight-capable things, let it fly means to throw, hurl or let loose something in an angry way, like bullets from guns or teargas from a grenade launcher. | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 16:42 | review | First posts | |||
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 16:42 | history | asked | Yin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |