Synonyms for on the fly
on the fly

Princeton's WordNet

1. on the flyadverb

   on the run or in a hurry

   "she wrote those letters on the fly"

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1. George Hobica:

   People use lavs not assigned to them on domestic airlines every time I fly, so I can only imagine something else was going on. Occasionally flight attendants ask nicely to return to the economy cabin but if someone pulls a Kristen Wiig a la Bridesmaids, then all bets are off, as we are constantly reminded, federal law requires us to obey crew instructions International airlines are much more strict about restricting business and first class lav access.

2. Harry Harris:

   I simply won't discuss future operations, with regards to whether we are going to sail within 12 miles, or fly within 12 miles, of any of the reclaimed islands that China has built in the South China Sea, I will reserve that for later.

3. Sheriff Hathaway:

   The cartels are adaptive as long as there's the demand here in the United States for the drugs they're going to figure out a way to do it. They’re going under the border, there's tunnels going under this town that have been there for 100 years. … They'll get ultralight airplanes and fly over, they'll go through the commercial ports of entry, but the most volume of the drugs goes right through the legal commercial ports of entry.

4. German Chancellor Angela Merkel:

   (I)t would be helpful if there were areas there, where no party to the war flew bombing missions -- in other words a kind of no-fly zone, we can't negotiate with the terrorists from ISIS. But if it were doable to come to such an agreement with the anti-Assad coalition and the Assad supporters, it would be helpful.

5. Joey Hauser:

   I thought we had a really good plan offensively, so I felt really confident in that, offensively, I’ve been struggling this season, just trying to let it fly and not worry about missing shots. So tonight I really just let that happen, and good things happened.