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Four Flusher is a pejorative term for a person who makes empty boasts or who continually lies.
The term four flushing traces its origins to the game of Poker during the 19th Century. Four flushing originally referred to a person who would misrepresent that they had a flush - a poker hand comprised of five cards all of one suit (hearts, spades, clubs or diamonds) - when they only had four cards of one suit.[1]
Chevy Chase used the term "four flushing!" in the 1989 film National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. The term is also used by Pooter-the-Clown, actor Mike Starr, in another film Uncle Buck of the same release year.