skin a flint

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Go to great lengths to save or gain something, particularly money. excessive,figuratively
    — 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.
    — 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.

词形变化

skins a flint present,singular,third-person skinning a flint participle,present skinned a flint participle,past skinned a flint past
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