Comments on: Four Flusher

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:13:45 +0000

I heard this term from the NBC Sunday Night Movie — I think it was in the early 1990′s — LBJ The Early Years. Lyndon Johnson’s first job in Washington D.C. was as an assistant to Congressman Clayburg. His nasty wife called Lyndon Johnson a four flusher the day she fired him. A woman firing a man? Where was this — on Mars?

By: Sandbox

Sandbox — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:06:24 +0000

There is also an episode of Popeye called “The Royal Four Flusher.” That means there is both an episode for Four Flusher and floor flusher.

By: Robert Burke

Robert Burke — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:07:59 +0000

Four flusher is a person so full of s**t that he or she needs to flush four times….hence “four flusher”

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:14:13 +0000

Thank you for your answer to my question; defining the term four flusher. After reading the replies however, I feel like the guy who asked a stranger for the correct time and said stranger told him how to make a watch. Keep the faith.

By: catfreak

catfreak — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:07:20 +0000

I searched for the term ‘fourflusher’ after seeing it used for an episode of The Rifleman.

In the episode, there was a man who tried his darndest to cheat and finagle his way into winning an entire wheat crop as well as $1000 . . .

By: sky

sky — Tue, 31 May 2011 09:10:56 +0000

So, if you think about it, the character of men who either Four Flush or Fore Flush is similar. I could definately see a Four Flusher Fore Flushing, and visa-versa.

By: sky

sky — Tue, 31 May 2011 09:00:45 +0000

My boyfriend told me that it was fore flusher; meaning a man who flushes the urinal before he finishes peeing in it. A Fore Flusher is therefore a man who is lazy (flushing before he’s finished just to hurry up and get the flushing motion over and done with….leaving smelly pee in the urinal for someone else to clean up.) Then I just heard Clark Gabel ask his wife if she thought he was what sounded like a fore flusher, but now that I googled that, I found out he must have been speaking of Four Flusher as in your description. Anybody else ever here of the Fore Flusher term?

By: Jim Cripps

Jim Cripps — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:52:21 +0000

Having just watched the silent “The Show Off” (1926) with Louise Brooks, in one of the title cards, Lulu called the character Aubrey a ‘Floor Flusher’. Maybe that was a typo? This movie is second-billed on a DVD with Clara Bow’s “The Plastic Age”, which is funny, because a character in that movie calls someone else a ‘four flusher’!

Thanks for the definition.

By: Lola Allen

Lola Allen — Wed, 26 May 2010 03:18:27 +0000

i used to do DIY plumbing at home at my work seems to be on par with regular plumbers.”"-

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:35:37 +0000

I first heard it in the Buggs Bunny cartoon.
“My Bunny Lies over the Sea” 1948

Buggs calls McCrory a flour flusher during a game of golf.

By: Lynne Gonzalez

Lynne Gonzalez — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:06:51 +0000

Thanks for giving the background of four flusher. I remember my dad using that term constantly when I was small, and I would get it wrong and repeat it as floor flusher. Now I know.