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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Skin a Flint To be very exacting in making a bargain. The French say, "Tondre sur un oeuf. " The Latin, lana caprina (goat's wool), means something as worthless as the skin of a flint or fleece of an eggshell. (See Skinflint .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impossibility | Attempt impossibilities; square the circle, wash a blackamoor white; skin a flint; make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, make bricks without straw; have nothing to go upon; weave a rope of sand, build castles in the air, prendre la lune avec les dents, extract sunbeams from cucumbers, set the Thames on fire, milk a he-goat into a sieve, catch a weasel asleep, rompre l'anguille au genou, be in two places at once. |
Parsimony | Verb: be parsimonious; Adjective: grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "SKIN A FLINT": To skin a flint. Additional references. | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-i-k-l-n-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: skinflint. | |
-2 letters: finalist. | |
-3 letters: anilins, finalis, finials, infants, kainits. | |
-4 letters: anilin, faints, finals, finial, flanks, flints, infant, instal, instil, isatin, kainit, kalifs, kinins, linins, takins, tilaks. | |
-5 letters: alifs, alist, anils, antis, fails, faint, fiats, final, finis, finks, flank, flans, flask, flats, flint, flits, ikats, intis, kaifs, kails, kains, kalif, kilns, kilts, kinas, kinin, knits, lifts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-i-k-l-n-n-s-t" | |
+2 letters: franklinites. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4B 49 4E 41 46 4C 49 4E 54 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001011 01001001 01001110 00100000 01000001 00100000 01000110 01001100 01001001 01001110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S K I N   A   F L I N T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004B 0049 004E 0041 0046 004C 0049 004E 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5345434823524046434854 |
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