Definitions
Etymologies
- from the practice of attempting to pass off four cards of the same suit, and a fifth of perhaps the same color, as a flush in poker (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Marshall meanwhile described Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the U.S. supreme commander in the southwest Pacific, as "never any good, always a four-flusher.”
“Maybe you don't know how the creek turned out to be a four-flusher; but the prospects were good at the time, and Dave proceeded to build his cabin and hers.”
“Oh brother/sister, what about Dallas as ground zero to every type of evangelical four-flusher, evangelical tele-crook or the Copelands with matching his-n-her jets?”
`Cecil Sherman was no moderate' | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
“Hillary, being a self-described foreign policy expert, expert economist, dynamic leader, and skilled four-flusher, would probably be chatting on the phone at 3am her first day complaining about the international glass ceiling.”
The Early Word: Hamilton Tilts Obama - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“In any case, he is not a four-flusher and hustler like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who also ran for president.”
“Willard half rose and in his distinctive guttural voice yelled, Go on wid the show, you faker, you four-flusher.”
“It is clear to everyone that in de Gaulle the United States is dealing with an ungrateful four-flusher whose hand should have been called years ago," Gordon McLendon of Dallas said on his eight radio stations.”
“Half of a four-flusher—I think I know where they put it.”
“The fancy-colored, freakish paper is nearly always used by the four-flusher in business.”
“If an employe is a sluggard or a four-flusher, he may be sure these things will be found out and he cannot hope for advancement.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘four-flusher’.
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EN - Old Western Slang
a hog-killin' time, a lick and a promise, according to Hoyle, ace-high, all down but nine, arbuckle's, at sea, back down, balled up, bang-up, bazoo, bear sign and 212 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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Bad Guys
For more badness, see hernesheir's excellent Perponyms.
rascal, scoundrel, blackguard, mountebank, rapscallion, scamp, miscreant, knave, scapegrace, rogue, charlatan, hoodlum and 65 more...
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One for the money, two for the show...
Words with numbers...
eight ball, oner, two bits, threefold, four-in-hand knot, four-leaf-clover, five-spot, six-pack, six-shooter, two-by-four, two-door, three-ring circus and 45 more...
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The Grifters
You're on the grift, same as me.
cheater, cheat, deceiver, deluder, dissimulator, swindler, faker, fleecer, flimflammer, fraud, fraudster, hustler and 81 more...
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