skin a flint

短语

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词形变化

skinned a flint skinning a flint skins a flint 三单 skins a flint skinning a flint 现在分词 skinned a flint 过去式 skinned a flint 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    Go to great lengths to save or gain something, particularly money.

    比喻

    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. 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.