English Dictionary

skin a flint

verb

(hyperbolic, figuratively) Go to great lengths to save or gain something, particularly money. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see skin, a, flint.

He can skin a flint with his sharp wit.

意味（1）

(hyperbolic, figuratively) 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.

意味（2）

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.