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Flint

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To skin a flint. To act meanly, and exact the uttermost farthing.

 

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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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Fleta
Fleur-de-Luce
Fleurs-de-Lys
Flibbertigibbet
Flic (French)
Flick
Flies
Fling
Fling Herself at my Head (To)
Flins [a stone]
Flint
Flint Implements
Flint Jack
Flipper
Flirt
Flittermouse
Flo (Old French)
Floated (Stock Exchange term)
Floaters (Stock Exchange term)
Floating Academy (The)
Flogging the Dead Horse

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Flint