{"id":31518,"date":"2020-12-13T13:22:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T19:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31518"},"modified":"2020-12-13T13:22:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T19:22:24","slug":"word-of-the-day-632","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/13\/word-of-the-day-632\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Four-flusher<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One who deceives or bluffs. The phrase comes from poker, in which a &#8220;four-flush&#8221; is a meaningless hand. (One needs five, not four, cards of the same suit in order to have a flush.)<br \/>\n<em>You can&#8217;t believe a word that fool says\u2014he&#8217;s a real four-flusher. [<a href=\"https:\/\/idioms.thefreedictionary.com\/a+four-flusher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Free Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heard on an episode of <em><strong>The Carol Burnett Show<\/strong><\/em> this morning. My Arts Editor was bewildered at the idiom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-flusher: One who deceives or bluffs. The phrase comes from poker, in which a &#8220;four-flush&#8221; is a meaningless hand. (One needs five, not four, cards of the same suit in order to have a flush.) You can&#8217;t believe a word that fool says\u2014he&#8217;s a real four-flusher. [The Free Dictionary] Heard \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/13\/word-of-the-day-632\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31519,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31518\/revisions\/31519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}