have one's fling
verb
Roget 840:
amuse,
entertain,
divert,
enliven;
tickle the fancy;
titillate,
raise a smile,
put in good humor;
cause laughter,
create laughter,
occasion laughter,
raise laughter,
excite laughter,
produce laughter,
convulse with laughter;
set the table in a roar,
be the death of one.
recreate,
solace,
cheer,
rejoice;
please
etc.
829;
interest;
treat,
regale.
amuse oneself,
game;
play a game,
play pranks,
play tricks;
sport,
disport,
toy,
wanton,
revel,
junket,
feast,
carouse,
banquet,
make merry,
drown care;
drive dull care away;
frolic,
gambol,
frisk,
romp;
caper;
dance
etc.
(leap)
309;
keep up the ball;
run a rig,
sow one's wild oats,
have one's fling,
take one's pleasure;
paint the town red [Slang];
see life;
desipere in loco [Lat.],
play the fool.
make holiday,
keep holiday;
go a Maying.
while away the time,
beguile the time;
kill time,
dally.
smile,
simper,
smirk;
grin,
grin like a Cheshire cat;
mock,
laugh in one's sleeve;
laugh,
laugh outright;
giggle,
titter,
snigger,
crow,
snicker,
chuckle,
cackle;
burst out,
burst into a fit of laughter;
shout,
split,
roar.
shake one's sides,
split one's sides,
hold both one's sides;
roar with laughter,
die with laughter.
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Roget 748:
be free
etc.
adj.;
have scope
etc.
n.,
have the run of,
have one's own way,
have a will of one's own,
have one's fling;
do what one likes,
do what one wishes,
do what one pleases,
do what one chooses;
go at large,
feel at home,
paddle one's own canoe;
stand on one's legs,
stand on one's rights;
shift for oneself.
take a liberty;
make free with,
make oneself quite at home;
use a freedom;
take leave,
take French leave.
set free
etc.
(liberate)
750;
give a loose to
etc.
(permit)
760;
allow scope
etc.
n..
to,
give scope
etc.
n..
to;
give a horse his head.
make free of;
give the freedom of,
give the franchise;
enfranchise,
affranchise†.
laisser faire [Fr.],
laisser aller [Fr.];
live and let live;
leave to oneself;
leave alone,
let alone.
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Roget 738:
be lax
etc.
adj.;
laisser faire [Fr.],
laisser aller [Fr.];
hold a loose rein;
give the reins to,
give rope enough,
give a loose to;
tolerate;
relax;
misrule.
go beyond the length of one's tether;
have one's swing,
have one's fling;
act without instructions,
act without authority,
act outside of one's authority;
act on one's own responsibility,
usurp authority.
dethrone,
depose;
abdicate.
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Roget 682:
be active
etc.
adj.;
busy oneself in;
stir,
stir about,
stir one's stumps;
bestir oneself,
rouse oneself;
speed,
hasten,
peg away,
lay about one,
bustle,
fuss;
raise up,
kick up a dust;
push;
make a push,
make a fuss,
make a stir;
go ahead,
push forward;
fight one's way,
elbow one's way;
make progress
etc.
282;
toll
etc.
(labor)
686;
plod,
persist
etc.
(persevere)
604.1;
keep up the ball,
keep the pot boiling.
look sharp;
have all one's eyes about one
etc.
(vigilance)
459;
rise,
arouse oneself,
hustle,
get up early,
be about,
keep moving,
steal a march,
kill two birds with one stone;
seize the opportunity
etc.
134,
lose no time,
not lose a moment,
make the most of one's time,
not suffer the grass to grow under one's feet,
improve the shining hour,
make short work of;
dash off;
make haste
etc.
684;
do one's best take pains
etc.
(exert oneself)
686;
do wonders,
work wonders.
have many irons in the fire,
have one's hands full,
have much on one's hands;
have other things to do,
have other fish to fry;
be busy;
not have a moment to spare,
not have a moment that one can call one's own.
have one's fling,
run the round of;
go all lengths,
stick at nothing,
run riot.
outdo;
overdo,
overact,
overlay,
overshoot the mark;
make a toil of a pleasure.
have a hand in
etc.
(act in)
680;
take an active part,
put in one's oar,
have a finger in the pie,
mix oneself up with,
trouble,
one's head about,
intrigue;
agitate.
tamper with,
meddle,
moil;
intermeddle,
interfere,
interpose;
obtrude;
poke one's nose in,
thrust one's nose in.
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