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Flèche

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Faire flèche de tout bois. To turn every event into a cause of censure. To make whatever wood falls in your path an arrow to discharge at your adversary.

 

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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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Flat Race (A)
Flat Simplicity
Flatterer
Flatterers
Flay a Fox (To)
Flea
Flea
Flea-bite
Flea’s Jump
Fleance
Flèche
Flecknoe (Richard)
Fledgeby
Flee the Falcon (To)
Fleeced
Fleet Book Evidence
Fleet Marriages
Fleet Street (London)
Fleet of the Desert
Flemish Account
Flemish School