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fix (someone's) flint

Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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get even with; dispose of; take care of; spoil (someone's) chances.

Quotations

1836

Oh no, if I didn't fix his flint for him in fair play, it's a pity.

1856

"Yes, I'll fix both their flints to-morrow. . . ." By "fixing their flints" Mr. Kennedy meant to express the fact that he intended to place his children in an entirely new sphere of action, and with a view to this he ordered out his horse and cariole on the following morning.

1942

"This day's the thirteenth o' November. Thank God it ain't a Friday or we'd ha' fixed our flint for keeps. . . ."