Fly on the Wall

There are flies that people used to have on their trousers, the little buttons at the front of people's trousers. But some people think that it goes back to the idea that they're only partly attached to their base - as if they could kind of fly off. And i suppose that's what the dictionarys saying, as tho ina, they could fly off at any time. Of course, you have flies in ta theatre as well, don't you? Indeed, where the scenery flies out, thatn ye, why theyre called the flies,. but i think it might just be the idea of everything flying freely if things go wrong. Fly on the wall is an expression that people

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