"fly off" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-fly off.ogg [Australia] Forms: flies off [present, singular, third-person], flying off [participle, present], flew off [past], flown off [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|fly<,,flew,flown> off}} fly off (third-person singular simple present flies off, present participle flying off, simple past flew off, past participle flown off)
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To flee rapidly; to run away. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Related terms: fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle
    Sense id: en-fly_off-en-verb-nbfOjQv- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (off)

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