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high-flying

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high-flying
adj
having great ambition or ability
Translations
high-flying [ˈhaɪˈflaɪɪŋ] ADJ
1. [aircraft] → de gran altura
2. (fig) [aim, ambition] → de altos vuelos; [executive, businessperson] (= promising) → prometedor; (= in high-calibre job) → bien situado, de prestigio; [career, student] → prometedor
high-flying [ˈhaɪˌflaɪɪŋ] adj (aircraft) → da alta quota (fig) (person, aim) → ambizioso/a
high-flying [ˈhaɪˌflaɪɪŋ] adj (aircraft) → da alta quota (fig) (person, aim) → ambizioso/a


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Do you know, when I look out over it all, and think of you and of all it means, it kind of makes me ache in the throat, and I have things in my heart I can't find the words to say, and I have a feeling that I can almost understand Browning and those other high-flying poet-fellows.
The full moon was partly obscured by high-flying clouds, but the pirates went their way with the familiarity born of long practice.
 
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