fly-by-night
- n a debtor who flees to avoid paying
- s (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous
- s ephemeral
the symphony is no fly-by-night venture
- The FDA says every time a new health threat pops up, fly-by-night companies take advantage of public fears by offering products that are too good to be true.
- Even in that warm wonderland of swamis, fly-by-night faith healers and hard-eyed Hollywood flesh peddlers, O'Malley was obviously something special.
- His offices are a pair of cluttered rooms in Kowloon that could easily pass for a fly-by-night travel agency, except for the myriad awards scattered like paperweights.