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99 Cent Adventure Time Stories The Moore the Merrier
A double-F or four-flusher is a yoop who thinks, when he walks down the street,
all the gals are giving him the wolf-eye and dying to meet him. It never occurs to
him that all they are giving junior is the hee-hee and the largest of haw-haws.
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Common Phrases: And Where They Come From
Why do we call a faker or a bluffer a “four-flusher”? Astute poker players know the
answer. In the game of poker, five cards of the same suit is called a flush, and it's
a good hand to bet on. Traditionally, poker is a game in which you try.
Myron Korach, John Mordock
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Let's Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition: A Compendium of ...
FOUR-FLUSHER We all know a four—flusher: a bluffer, someone who makes “
false or preten— tious claims.” The nineteenth—century term clearly has its roots
in the game of poker, and indicated a situation in which a player claimed that he ...
FOUR-FLUSHER. (Continued from page 29) 1 MAP OF MADISON .WISCONSIN
HEAVY BLACK LINES INDICATE "jATVia. Smoke Five With Me Here is the
sweetest smoke that I ever knew, and I've smoked for over 4U years. It was
handed ...
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Now You Know More: The Book of Answers
Why is a shifty person called a“four flusher”? In poker, five cards from the same
suit is called a flush and is very valu- able. The highest possible poker hand is a
royal flush, or five cards from ten to ace all from the same suit. However, four
cards ...
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Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks
The Four Flusher The deck is freely shuffled. The royal flushes in all four suits are
removed and shuffled further. The packet of 20 cards is then placed behind the
magician's back. A spectator calls for any royal flush, for example, a royal flush in
...
Karl Fulves, Charles Thorton Jordan, 1992
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Now You Know Big Book of Answers
Why is a shifty person called a “four flusher”? In poker, five cards from the same
suit is called a flush and is very valuable. The highest possible poker hand is a
royal flush, or five cards from ten to ace all from the same suit. However, four
cards ...
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Having Fun with Words of Wit and Wisdom: In 3,401 Quotations ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Elsie Venner, II, xxi Four-flusher – A faker, cheat, from the
flush in poker, all five cards of the same suit (the player's classic chortle when
laying down a hand of all spades or clubs: “They're all blue.”), the cheater trying
to ...
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Organizing Crime in Chinatown: Race and Racketeering in New ...
According to them, Chin Sam (aka “Four Flusher Sam”) was the head of the Ming
Dock Tong, most of whom came from the Hock San District or Chin family group.
Chin Sam tried to “place his tong in the front rank,” but was unsuccessful.
Jeffrey Scott McIllwain, 2004
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All That We Say Is Ours: Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the ...
Frank kept putting me down and tried to hit on Adriane, saying to her several
times (referring to me), 'What's a nice girl like you doing with a four-flusher like
that?' (I only learned years later that a four-flusher meant a bowel movement so
big ...
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Penny Dreadful: Verbis Diablo, Review
We're already seen what devilish uses her idol's hands have conjured. Sir Malcolm is a royal four-flusher when you think about it. He gets to the ... «Den of Geek!, 五月 15»
Who leaked the Hateful Eight script and almost killed Quentin …
... tacking a bill to the front door of the Hollywood Saloon that read “WANTED: the yeller-bellied four-flusher who killed The Hateful Eight.”. «Entertainment Weekly, 五月 15»
The Story Of The $4 Toilet And 7 Other Ways To Save The World
Finally, one day after a four-flusher, I'd had enough and I went to the Home Depot website, where I saw perfectly reasonable toilets starting at ... «Forbes, 一月 15»
Wendy Davis, Classic Texas Four-Flusher
“This is all your fault, you dammed four-flusher!” the Texan says under his breath. “You low-lived skunk, you! You think you're fit to marry her, ... «RealClearPolitics, 一月 14»
Playing Poker With Putin
... towards peace, Obama will find out sooner rather than later whether he has a real partner in Putin, or is playing poker with a four-flusher. «Foreign Affairs, 九月 13»
Salvage crew boards grounded drilling rig in Alaska
... product in your life (would you like me to list them all for you?), then you are either a hypocritical four-flusher, or irrational, or both... 0 replies. «NBCNews.com, 一月 13»
Marvin Miller's legacy one of delicious ironies Marvin Miller's legacy …
Perhaps the best is that while Miller was called a socialist, a communist, a union rabble-rouser and a “mustachioed four-flusher” (by Paul ... «Chicago Daily Herald, 十一月 12»
Still Forgotten
Douglas MacArthur, the U.S. supreme commander in the southwest Pacific, as "never any good, always a four-flusher." The cattiness included ... «Wall Street Journal, 十月 11»
Call-A-Head king's ex wants indoor plumbing - & house
2" into a potty empire is a four-flusher, according to a lawsuit filed in Queens Supreme Court. Buonagura, 47, says Howard agreed to buy a ... «New York Daily News, 二月 10»
President Kennedy and the Mob
She told Hersh her late husband called Joe Kennedy a four-flusher and double-crosser because of a previous experience involving ... «Enter Stage Right, 一月 09»
