fly like a rock at English (WD) Of Explained:

==English==

Verb

Inter: head » en|verb|head=to fly like a rock

Inter: simile » sometimes|sarcastic to travel through the air with little or no benefit from aerodynamic lift

1. : If the wings arent big enough your paper airplane will fly like a rock.''
2. Inter: quote-book »

|year=1970
|author=American Association of Physics Teachers
|title=The Physics teacher, Volumes 8-9
|page=541
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=BRdDAQAAIAAJ&q=%22fly+like+a+rock%22&dq=%22fly+like+a+rock%22&hl=en&ei=leTlTbWQMavKiALMtrTuCQ&sa=X
|passage=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"...

Antonyms

* fly like a bird
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