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From: "MICHAEL. CHAPPELL" <>
Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] Flat As A Flitter
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 08:43:09 +0100


I would hazard if it is "Fritter" is derived from our British saying "Flat
as a pancake"!

We use it re "a failure" eg, My cake came out " Flat as a Pancake!" i.e.
now often "duff" used to describe a failed item, change of use from its
original meaning of counterfeit.

But have a "Flitter" as: eg, a tenant doing a runner, bunk & etc!

In that case he would have had to keep very low indeed!



Yours,
MIkey.
Dict., Phrase and Fable, Rev Dr Brewer, Cassell Peter Galpin & Co.
Undated, ( Est'd 1890.)




-----Original Message-----
From: Marie Driskell <>
To: <>
Date: 20 April 2000 04:04
Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] Flat As A Flitter




Cousin Bill,
My ear, as a child, always heard "Flat as a fritter" and I took it to
mean that something was as flat as a fried fritter (plain or with apples,
apple fritters being my favorite).
Marie

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