| 词组 | flusher |
| 释义 | flusher Theme: TOILET n. a toilet. (Folksy. Compared to an outhouse.)I hear they put in a flusher over at the Babbits'.That's silly. They've always had a flusher. flusherA toilet. We're going to need a new flusher sooner than later with the way this one clogs at the slightest bit of toilet paper. four-flusherOne who deceives or bluffs. The phrase comes from poker, in which a "four-flush" is a meaningless hand. (One needs five, not four, cards of the same suit in order to have a flush.) You can't believe a word that fool says—he's a real four-flusher. flusher n. a toilet. (Compared to an outhouse.) I hear they put in a flusher over at the Babbits’. four-flusher n. a cheater. Bruno is a lousy four-flusher, among other unpleasant things. four-flusherA fraud, a bluffer. To hold a four flush in poker is to have four cards of the same suit but not the fifth card that would make a potentially winning hand. Since four of a suit is worthless, a “four-flusher” is gambling that you'll believe her or she has the goods or the right stuff. The suggestion that a four-flusher is so full of crap that getting all of it down the toilet will take four pulls of the handle is an imaginative but incorrect derivation of the phrase. |
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