What does flies mean?
Flies means plural of fly.
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/flaɪz/ · noun
plural of fly.
[…] I was born in the dressing-room, suckled in the flies, educated in the lobby, and brought up in the property-room […]
Hung from the “flies” in air, She acts a palpable lie, She’s as little a fairy there As unpoetical I!
One of the staff was up in the flies fixing the weight for the mast. The head mechanist and Ted Gascoigne were down below on the stage, having an argument. Suddenly, the gentleman in the flies got all careless and dropped the weight.
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Flies means plural of fly.
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[…] I was born in the dressing-room, suckled in the flies, educated in the lobby, and brought up in the property-room […]
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