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 Flins [a stone].Flint Im’plements. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Flint.
 
To skin a flint. To act meanly, and exact the uttermost farthing.   1
 


 Flins [a stone].Flint Im’plements. 

 
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