"catch flies" meaning in English

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      "form": "catches flies",
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      "form": "catching flies",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You'd better close your mouth; are you trying to catch flies?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have one's mouth wide open for a prolonged period."
      ],
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          "mouth",
          "mouth"
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        "(idiomatic) To have one's mouth wide open for a prolonged period."
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        "Of an actor: to distract the audience by moving or gesturing when the focus should be elsewhere."
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        "(theater, informal) Of an actor: to distract the audience by moving or gesturing when the focus should be elsewhere."
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see catch, fly."
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          "catch",
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          "fly",
          "fly#English"
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      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "7 14 79",
          "word": "flytrap"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "7 14 79",
          "word": "you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar"
        }
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  "word": "catch flies"
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      "form": "catches flies",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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      "form": "catching flies",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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      "form": "caught flies",
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      "word": "you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You'd better close your mouth; are you trying to catch flies?"
        }
      ],
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        "To have one's mouth wide open for a prolonged period."
      ],
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          "mouth",
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          "wide open",
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        "(idiomatic) To have one's mouth wide open for a prolonged period."
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