(idiomatic) To digress from a topic.

(obsolete, of time) To pass slowly.

(idiomatic) To go unnoticed, especially for a long period of time.

Alternative form of break a butterfly upon the wheel

Any fly in the family Ulidiidae

(US, informal) To act very quickly or energetically.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fly, without, a, license. / (informal, humorous, mostly used in continuous tenses) To inadvertently have one's flies (trouser opening) undone.

Alternative form of break a butterfly upon the wheel

simple past tense and past participle of make the fur fly

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of watch the feathers fly