four-flush
Example Sentences
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“Anybody that would bet a four-flush against two aces in sight, the way you did when Billy won that three-thousand-dollar pot from you, ought never to play anything stronger than ping-pong for the cigarettes.”
From Young Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph
An' don't you always want to meet a real man, not a four-flush?
From The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border by Grey, Zane
Then, too, we're all tagged and labelled like cans of salmon with the price-mark on—we can't four-flush.
From The Ne'er-Do-Well by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
An' I've no use fer these four-flush cowboys thet 're always lookin' fer trouble an' talkin' gun-play.
From The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border by Grey, Zane
The interviewer, however, finally approved the visitors, stating definitely that "they are Regular Folks and they don't four-flush about anything."
From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Street, Julian