Full of money. Similarly A flush of water means a sudden and full flow of water. (Latin, flux-us.)
“Strut was not very flush in [the] ready.”—Dr. Arbuthnot.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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