skin a flint in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skins a flint",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skinning a flint",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skinned a flint",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skinned a flint",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Fitzpatrick, Kathleen (1937) The Weans at Rowallan, page 54",
          "text": "Deed, it wasn't Jane, for she just hates ye; she always says ye're an ould miser, an' ye'd skin a flint."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Go to great lengths to save or gain something, particularly money."
      ],
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        "(hyperbolic, figurative) Go to great lengths to save or gain something, particularly money."
      ],
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        "excessive",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
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          "_dis1": "18 82",
          "word": "skinflint"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Miller, Thomas (1847) The Boy's Spring Book, page 33",
          "text": "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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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see skin, a, flint."
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        [
          "flint",
          "flint#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "skin a flint"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "skinflint"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skins a flint",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skinning a flint",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skinned a flint",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skinned a flint",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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        "English hyperboles"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Fitzpatrick, Kathleen (1937) The Weans at Rowallan, page 54",
          "text": "Deed, it wasn't Jane, for she just hates ye; she always says ye're an ould miser, an' ye'd skin a flint."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Go to great lengths to save or gain something, particularly money."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(hyperbolic, figurative) Go to great lengths to save or gain something, particularly money."
      ],
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        "excessive",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Miller, Thomas (1847) The Boy's Spring Book, page 33",
          "text": "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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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see skin, a, flint."
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  "word": "skin a flint"
}

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"skin a flint" meaning in English

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