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English Idiom: Take a flier
Have you ever done something even though you were not 100% sure of the outcome?
If you have, then you know what it means to take a flier.
To put it plainly, taking a flier is like gambling.
Take a flier means to take a chance or to do something even though you’re not 100% sure of the outcome.
When a baseball team drafts a young player or signs a veteran to a new contract, they take a flier.
The young rookie may turn out to be a bad player, or the veteran could get injured early in the season.
Nobody knows for sure what will happen, so the team takes a flier and hopes for the best.
Skydiving is similar.
No matter how often you check your parachute, there is always a small chance it will not open correctly.
But people still take a chance and jump anyway.
What the heck, right?
There are no guarantees in life, and if you don’t take a flier now and then, where’s the fun of being?
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