Alitotes suggesting one is not torpid enough to have flies settle.

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1. (idiomatic) Nomentalweaknesses,characterdefects, or other significantflaws belonging to.
   • 1899,Grant Allen, chapter 3, inMiss Cayley's Adventures:

     "You're jest about the very woman I'm looking for, miss. Lithe—that's what I call you. I kin put you in the way of making your pile, I kin. This is abonâ-fide offer.No flies on my business!"

   • 1909,William Dean Howells, chapter 5, inA Hazard of New Fortunes:

     I give you my word that there areno flies on his personal integrity, if that's what you mean.

   • 1914,Peter B. Kyne, chapter 13, inThe Long Chance:

     "He knows what we want, you bet" he whispered. "No flies on that preacher. I like him. I like any man who can do things without a diagram and directions for using."

   • 1915,John Galsworthy,The Little Man,sc. 1:

     GERMAN. Wait! You are a young people.
     AMERICAN. That is so; there areno flies on us.

   • 2000 June 3,James Brooke, “A Budget Canadian Carrier Brings Back the Friendly Skies”, inNew York Times, retrieved31 October 2013:

     "WestJet is tightly run, well managed, there areno flies on those guys," said Harry Gow, a board member of the Canadian Association of Airline Passengers.

• Now usually used to suggest that a person is particularlyalert,clever, orenergetic.
• Often used in the construction"There areno flies on him/her/them".

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