Why do we say it?
‘'Flying a Kile.”
In the money market there are Bills known as “pig on pork." That is to say, they are drawn by a firm on itself, through one of its branches. A very neat way of borrowing a little money without appearing to do so 1
Such Bills have no solid weight of business behind them, and are metaphorically speaking, so light that they Hutter about like so many kites. They drift, whichever way the wind of cheap money blows. We speak also of “flying a kite” when we are rather in the dark as to what is going on and let fall a few airy phrases in the ho[>e of "drawing” an informant. We survey the field, as it were, by means of these kites. In most cases, it needs but a trivial indication to show which way the wind blows.
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Southland Times, Issue 21098, 2 June 1930, Page 8
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148Why do we say it? Southland Times, Issue 21098, 2 June 1930, Page 8
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