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The first Governor of Oklahoma, Charles N. Haskell, denounced President and political opponent Theodore Roosevelt, calling him a "four flusher".
In the 1922 Harold Lloyd silent film Dr. Jack C. Norman Hammond uses the phrase "a four-flusher" to describe the doctor in charge of "The Sick-Little-Well-Girl" in the city.
In the 1948 film "Homecoming" starring Clark Gable, one of the characters calls Gable's character a "four flusher".
The Doobie Brothers included the song "Double Dealin' Four Flusher" in their 1975 album Stampede.
The Four Flusher is the name of an American comedy written in 1925.
A Popeye cartoon released in 1954 was titled "Floor Flusher", as a pun on four flusher.
The phrase was used frequently by screenwriter John Hughes as something of a trademark. In National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Clark refers to his boss as "four flushing" in his tirade over his corporate Christmas present; in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York it's used by the mafia boss Johnny in the fictional film Angels with Even Filthier Souls; and in Uncle Buck, Pooter the Clown calls Buck a four flusher, which results in Buck punching the clown right in the face.
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