flincher

The exchange with Bill Moyers was a flincher for me, but the worst part of the video was the young girl saying disparaging things about you.

Leslie Griffith: Message to Bill O'Reilly and Bill Moyers 2008

Nevertheless, he scorned to be thought a flincher, and made shift to tope to him on the square.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Nevertheless, he scorned to be thought a flincher, and made shift to tope to him on the square.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

"All sink or all swim, and the devil take the flincher."

A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

I got no praise certainly for this, but I escaped blame; and I saw by the way the other mizzen-top men treated me, that they considered me a smart lad, and no flincher.

Peter the Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

A German student is no flincher at the bottle, although he generally drinks beer.

Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842

'If I converse with a man of mind, and no flincher, who presses hard upon me, right and left, his imagination raises up mine.

The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

“Why every stranger must prove himself no flincher before we admit him among us,” was the reply — “now you are free.”

Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund Anonymous 1829

The specimen he had already given was sufficient; the boys declared him no flincher — that he was not a coward, and that he had, therefore, gained his freedom.

Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund Anonymous 1829

The derivation of Lushy, we believe, is from a very common expression, that a drunken man votes for Lushington; but perhaps it would be rather difficult to discover the origin of many terms made use of to express a jolly good fellow, and no flincher under the effects of good fellowship.

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823