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Brewer's: Fly a Kite
(To). To send a begging letter to persons of a charitable reputation, or in easy circumstances, to solicit pecuniary aid, urging poverty, losses, or sickness as an excuse. (See Kite-Flying.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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