four-flusher

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noun person who pretends to be an expert

noun. imposter, copy

noun. person who is false, deceitful

noun. person who pretends, is deceitful

noun. person pretending to be something else

noun. person who pretends to be an expert

"cheat, dishonest person," 1900, from verb four-flush "to bluff a poker hand, claim a flush (n.) while holding only four cards in the suit" (1896).

But, as I've said before, when it comes to figurin' on what women or horses'll do, I'm a four-flusher.

This extra dresser is a four-flusher, for he is trying to appear as something that he is not.

He'd thought the world of Don Roberts, who had turned out a four-flusher.

Don hadn't ever pretended to be any less of a four-flusher than he was.

And I've got four thousand that belongs to that four-flusher, Square Deal.

You have been telling men that I am a coward and a four-flusher.

The fancy-colored, freakish paper is nearly always used by the four-flusher in business.

If an employe is a sluggard or a four-flusher, he may be sure these things will be found out and he cannot hope for advancement.

I ain't such a four-flusher as to lay down my hand before I've played it out.