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Meaning of fly like a rock | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

to travel through the air with little or no benefit from aerodynamic lift

sarcastic, sometimes

Examples

“If the wings aren't big enough, your paper airplane will fly like a rock.”
“When students have compared the wing areas and weights by squaring and cubing the linear ratios, they correctly predict the large one will fly "like a rock"...”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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