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fixing someone's flint

fixing someone's flint is the present participle and gerund of fix someone's flint.

Meaning of fix someone's flint

Verb

fix someone's flint (third-person singular simple present fixes someone's flint, present participle fixing someone's flint, simple past and past participle fixed someone's flint)

  1. Synonym of put a spoke in someone's wheel (“to thwart or obstruct someone in the execution of some design”).

Questions about fixing someone's flint

What is fixing someone's flint the present participle and gerund of?
Fixing someone's flint is the present participle and gerund of fix someone's flint.

Words near fixing someone's flint in the dictionary

  1. fixing
  2. fixing on
  3. fixing room
  4. fixing rooms
  5. fixing someone's clock
  6. fixing someone's flint
  7. fixing someone's wagon
  8. fixing the roof while the sun is shining
  9. fixing to
  10. fixing up
  11. fixing upon

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