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Examples
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Nobody home, honest to Gawd, he's nothin 'but a nasty little fourflusher.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929
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One showing four cards of a suit (but not holding the fifth needed for a flush) may bluff his way to winning the pot, but if opponents demand that he support his boast he will be exposed as a pretentious fake as the cards are revealed when the issue is forced to a conclusion: in other words, if they call his bluff the fourflusher must put his cards on the table at the showdown.
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He didn't much care for him, he'd always thought of him as a weasel and a fourflusher, but this was long before Marty had met Marisol. "
The Burglar On The Prowl Block, Lawrence 2004
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Taggart's a no good fourflusher, an 'no woman can be anything if she takes up with him. "
The Boss of the Lazy Y Charles Alden Seltzer 1908
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