0 the act of trying to find out what people's opinion about something new will be by informally spreading news of it: --
1 the act of making a suggestion in order to find out how others react to it: --
This is not kite flying or a testing of the temperature of the ten minutes rule procedure.
I consider this to be a bit of "kite flying", a bit of advertising.
In the kite flying of the past nine months, far too much attention has been paid to the views of the dissenters, and not enough to the majority recommendations.
I am not even sure whether a fountain 300 feet high would not do some mischief as regards kite flying.
While there was some inevitable 'kite flying' of possible options for reform, all involved major changes and, potentially, losses for large numbers of claimants.
Our guidance notes on the procedures for making byelaws explain how to ban kite flying in the countryside.
We have had a series of scare stories, deliberate leaks and kite flying on disability benefits over the past six months.
Part of the reason for that may be that so little of practical value has resulted from all the kite-flying and speculations of the past 18 months.
