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Four flush
A four flush (also flush draw) is a poker draw or non-standard poker hand that is one card short of being a full flush. Four flushing refers to empty boasting or unsuccessful bluffing, and a four flusher is a person who makes empty boasts or bluffs when holding a four flush. Four flusher can also refer to a welcher, piker, or braggart. This pejorative term originated in the 19th century when bluffing poker players misrepresented that they had a flush—a poker hand with five cards all of one suit—when they only had four cards of one suit. Optimal strategies for bluffing or folding when holding a four flush have been explored extensively in poker strategy books.
The first governor of Oklahoma, Charles N. Haskell, denounced president and political opponent Theodore Roosevelt, calling him a "four flusher".
Metro Pictures released the comedy The Four Flusher in 1919. Several other films have the term in their titles.
In the 1922 Harold Lloyd silent film Dr. Jack, the phrase "a four flusher" is used to describe the doctor in charge of "The Sick-Little-Well-Girl" in the city.
The Four Flusher is the name of an American comedy written in 1925.
In the 1926 silent film The Show-Off, Clara (Louise Brooks) calls Aubrey Piper (Ford Sterling) a four flusher, meaning a braggart or a person who makes false or pretentious claims. In the film, his "four flushing" has resulted in the loss of money needed to pay for the mortgage on the Fisher family home.
In the 1933 Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup, Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) calls Ambassador Trentino a "four-flushing swine".
In the 1941 movie Hellzapoppin', Pepi (Mischa Auer) is called a four flusher.
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Four flush
A four flush (also flush draw) is a poker draw or non-standard poker hand that is one card short of being a full flush. Four flushing refers to empty boasting or unsuccessful bluffing, and a four flusher is a person who makes empty boasts or bluffs when holding a four flush. Four flusher can also refer to a welcher, piker, or braggart. This pejorative term originated in the 19th century when bluffing poker players misrepresented that they had a flush—a poker hand with five cards all of one suit—when they only had four cards of one suit. Optimal strategies for bluffing or folding when holding a four flush have been explored extensively in poker strategy books.
The first governor of Oklahoma, Charles N. Haskell, denounced president and political opponent Theodore Roosevelt, calling him a "four flusher".
Metro Pictures released the comedy The Four Flusher in 1919. Several other films have the term in their titles.
In the 1922 Harold Lloyd silent film Dr. Jack, the phrase "a four flusher" is used to describe the doctor in charge of "The Sick-Little-Well-Girl" in the city.
The Four Flusher is the name of an American comedy written in 1925.
In the 1926 silent film The Show-Off, Clara (Louise Brooks) calls Aubrey Piper (Ford Sterling) a four flusher, meaning a braggart or a person who makes false or pretentious claims. In the film, his "four flushing" has resulted in the loss of money needed to pay for the mortgage on the Fisher family home.
In the 1933 Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup, Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) calls Ambassador Trentino a "four-flushing swine".
In the 1941 movie Hellzapoppin', Pepi (Mischa Auer) is called a four flusher.