skin a flint

Definitions

1. 1

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

   • 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

   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.

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