five and fly

five and fly
 n.β€” Β«People seemed to agree with the outspoken professor, whose campaign slogan, Five and Fly, became a state catch phrase (“You come here for five years, rip us off and fly away”).Β» β€”β€œAn Ounce of Bronze in an Ocean of Snow” by Arun Venugopal Rediff.com (India) Apr. 3, 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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