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skins a flint

skins a flint is the third-person singular simple present indicative of skin a flint.

Meaning of skin a flint

Verb

skin a flint (third-person singular simple present skins a flint, present participle skinning a flint, simple past and past participle skinned a flint)

  1. (excessive, figuratively) Go to great lengths to save or gain something, particularly money.
    • Deed, it wasn't Jane, for she just hates ye; she always says ye're an ould miser, an' ye'd skin a flint.Fitzpatrick, Kathleen (1937), The Weans at Rowallan, page 54
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see skin, a, flint.
    • The old women used to say that he would have skinned a flint to have saved a halfpenny, if he had spoilt a sixpenny knife in doing it.Miller, Thomas (1847), The Boy's Spring Book, page 33

Questions about skins a flint

What is skins a flint the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Skins a flint is the third-person singular simple present indicative of skin a flint.

Words near skins a flint in the dictionary

  1. skinpop
  2. skinpopped
  3. skinpopping
  4. skinpops
  5. skins
  6. skins a flint
  7. skins and grins
  8. skins back
  9. skins someone alive
  10. skins the cat
  11. skins the lamb

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