Four Flusher

March 24th, 2008 by admin

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  1. Lynne Gonzalez:

    June 8th, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    Thanks for giving the background of four flusher. I remember my dad using that term constantly when I was small, and I would get it wrong and repeat it as floor flusher. Now I know.

  2. Rob:

    June 17th, 2009 at 4:35 pm

    I first heard it in the Buggs Bunny cartoon.
    “My Bunny Lies over the Sea” 1948

    Buggs calls McCrory a flour flusher during a game of golf.

  3. Lola Allen:

    May 25th, 2010 at 11:18 pm

    i used to do DIY plumbing at home at my work seems to be on par with regular plumbers.”"-

  4. Jim Cripps:

    March 10th, 2011 at 3:52 pm

    Having just watched the silent “The Show Off” (1926) with Louise Brooks, in one of the title cards, Lulu called the character Aubrey a ‘Floor Flusher’. Maybe that was a typo? This movie is second-billed on a DVD with Clara Bow’s “The Plastic Age”, which is funny, because a character in that movie calls someone else a ‘four flusher’!

    Thanks for the definition.

  5. sky:

    May 31st, 2011 at 5:00 am

    My boyfriend told me that it was fore flusher; meaning a man who flushes the urinal before he finishes peeing in it. A Fore Flusher is therefore a man who is lazy (flushing before he’s finished just to hurry up and get the flushing motion over and done with….leaving smelly pee in the urinal for someone else to clean up.) Then I just heard Clark Gabel ask his wife if she thought he was what sounded like a fore flusher, but now that I googled that, I found out he must have been speaking of Four Flusher as in your description. Anybody else ever here of the Fore Flusher term?

  6. sky:

    May 31st, 2011 at 5:10 am

    So, if you think about it, the character of men who either Four Flush or Fore Flush is similar. I could definately see a Four Flusher Fore Flushing, and visa-versa.

  7. catfreak:

    January 22nd, 2012 at 2:07 pm

    I searched for the term ‘fourflusher’ after seeing it used for an episode of The Rifleman.

    In the episode, there was a man who tried his darndest to cheat and finagle his way into winning an entire wheat crop as well as $1000 . . .

    cf

  8. Jim:

    February 2nd, 2012 at 12:14 pm

    Thank you for your answer to my question; defining the term four flusher. After reading the replies however, I feel like the guy who asked a stranger for the correct time and said stranger told him how to make a watch. Keep the faith.

  9. Robert Burke:

    March 6th, 2012 at 9:07 am

    Four flusher is a person so full of s**t that he or she needs to flush four times….hence “four flusher”

  10. Sandbox:

    June 6th, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    There is also an episode of Popeye called “The Royal Four Flusher.” That means there is both an episode for Four Flusher and floor flusher.

  11. Dave:

    July 9th, 2012 at 5:13 pm

    I heard this term from the NBC Sunday Night Movie — I think it was in the early 1990′s — LBJ The Early Years. Lyndon Johnson’s first job in Washington D.C. was as an assistant to Congressman Clayburg. His nasty wife called Lyndon Johnson a four flusher the day she fired him. A woman firing a man? Where was this — on Mars?

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