skin a flint

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English

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. (hyperbolic, figurative) Go to great lengths to save or gain something, particularly money.
    • Fitzpatrick, Kathleen (1937) The Weans at Rowallan, →ISBN, page 54
      Deed, it wasn't Jane, for she just hates ye; she always says ye're an ould miser, an' ye'd skin a flint.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see skin,‎ a,‎ flint.
    • Miller, Thomas (1847) The Boy's Spring Book, page 33
      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.

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