Converse of object

• do: I did a quick flit around the classroom, checking on how things were going.

Modifies a noun

• boat: A photo even exists of the flit boat coming ashore with a 1920s motor car balanced crossways aboard it on two planks!

Modifying Another Word

• away: A common view is the white rump and black tail as the bird flits away when disturbed.

• back: Visions of nature appear; decaying, renewing and changing as your eye flits back and forth.

• effortlessly: The score is also fantastic, and flits effortlessly between eerie, quiet, and upbeat as required.

• now: The date will now flit across to the right.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• out: Here again, MAC turns up, realism flits out of the window.

Followed by a transitive particle

• around: Do your eyes tend to lose contact easily and flit around the room or raise to the ceiling?

Adjective complement

• past: Suddenly a shape flits past on the edge of my imagination.

Preposition: from

• flower: Here, the butterfly flits from flower to flower.

• place: Which fits the Doctor, a man who flits from place to place without ever stopping.

• thing: Have you ever noticed how your thoughts can quickly flit from one thing to another?

Noun used with modifier

• moonlight: People regularly moved house in search of work, and would sometimes do a " moonlight flit " when rent arrears were due.

• butterfly: Fusiliers hover in shoals just off the reef, and butterfly fish flit between the corals.