Fly-by-night

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fly-by-night
       adj 1: of businesses and businessmen; "a fly-by-night operation"
              [syn: {shady}]
       2: of an impermanent nature; "the symphony is no fly-by-night
          venture"
       n : a debtor who flees to avoid paying



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "fly-by-night":
     brittle, capricious, changeable, corruptible, deciduous, dying,
     ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting, flying,
     fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, impetuous,
     impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, irresponsible, momentary,
     mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perishable,
     short-lived, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive,
     transitory, trustless, undependable, undurable, unenduring,
     unfaithworthy, unreliable, unstable, unsure, untrustworthy,
     untrusty, volatile