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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Flum-flam, n. [e.m.E. flim-flam (1641).] A piece of idle talk. —1641 Baillie I. 342.
That chamber and table discourse, for argument, flum-flams, and fanfares, could not be treasons
