fix someone's flint

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fix someone's flint (third-person singular simple present fixes someone's flint, present participle fixing someone's flint, simple past and past participle fixed someone's flint)

  1. Synonym of put a spoke in someone's wheel (to thwart or obstruct someone in the execution of some design)

References edit

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary