Fly
Fly verb - To proceed or move quickly.
Usage example: flew down the concourse to catch his flight
Lumber
Lumber verb - To proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually.
Usage example: the novel's plot lumbers to its predictable conclusion after 500 long pages
Both words in one sentence
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Getting Crap Past the Radar: In "Lumber Jack-Rabbit", Bugs Bunny sings the first four verses of "Jimmy Crack Corn", which is about a slave being happy that his master got killed by an out-of-control horse that got bitten by a "blue-tail fly".
Source: Western Animation / Bugs Bunny
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