Meaning of skin a flint | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Go to great lengths to save or gain something, particularly money.
   excessive, figuratively
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see skin, a, flint.

Examples

“Deed, it wasn't Jane, for she just hates ye; she always says ye're an ould miser, an' ye'd 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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