What does flashman mean?
Flashman means A slick salesman or spin doctor..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A slick salesman or spin doctor..
A flashman just naturally tried to promote and show- off his company at every opportunity. Wasn't that what sales-PR was all about? Even the police departments engaged flashmen.
"They're all Los Angeles flashmen running this thing. Joe McDonald told anyone who'd listen that they're just a bunch of sleazebags opposed to everything we stand for, dragging show biz into it, and he was right."
Are not your favourite friends horn-boys and flashmen —
While loud her flashman cries, 'Arise, my ladybird, arise!'
He now had a country seat at Kilmacud and women procured for him by a flashman.
c. 1833, Broadside Ballad, "My flashman has gone to sea". My flashman he's a Yankee, with his hair cut short behind
Her flashman, in her estimation, is ten times handsomer, certainly more acceptable.
He shared the fate of most country bumpkins on arriving at the metropolis, and was quickly robbed by a flashman, who claimed acquaintance with him and cleared out his fob
Use flashman when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Flashman means A slick salesman or spin doctor..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A flashman just naturally tried to promote and show- off his company at every opportunity. Wasn't that what sales-PR was all about? Even the police departments engaged flashmen.
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