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A '''four flush''' (also '''flush draw''') is a [[draw (poker)#Flush draw|poker draw]] or [[non-standard poker hand]] that is one card short of being a full [[flush (poker)|flush]].<ref name="weeklystandard">{{cite journal
| title = All Hat and No Cattle | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040512151554/http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/068ifwqz.asp
| url-status = dead
| accessdate = 2009-03-05
| issue = 34 (Why, despite everything, Bush should win)
| date = 2004-04-17
| quote = In New York and Vegas, the phrase is "four flusher", to denote a poker player holding a worthless hand, one card shy of a powerful flush, but bluffing in the hope that opponents will mistake his smirk for strength.}}</ref> '''Four flushing''' refers to empty boasting<ref name="Four-Flusher">{{cite news
| title = "Four-Flusher" Defined
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1908/10/02/archives/fourflusher-defined.html
| accessdate = 2009-03-05
| date = 1908-10-02
| quote = But the term is usually applied to one who "bulls" his way through life with a terrific "front" and who when "called," absolutely fails to "deliver the goods."
| first=Brooks P.
| last=Hazael}}</ref>
or unsuccessful [[bluff (poker)|bluffing]],<ref name="nyt-four-flusher">{{cite news
| quote = It seems then, that a "four flusher" properly speaking, must be an unsuccessful bluffer}}</ref>
and a '''four flusher''' is a person who makes empty boasts or bluffs when holding a four flush.<ref name="weeklystandard"/><ref name="defensefourflusher">{{cite news
| accessdate = 2009-03-05}}</ref>
Four flusher can also refer to a welcher, piker, or braggart.<ref name="Criminal">{{cite book
This [[pejorative]] term originated in the 19th century when bluffing poker players misrepresented that they had a [[flush (poker)|flush]]—a poker hand with five cards all of one [[suit (cards)|suit]]—when they only had four cards of one suit.<ref name="nyt-four-flusher"/><ref name="defensefourflusher"/><ref name="stupidquestion">{{cite web|last=Ruch |first=John |title=What is the meaning of the term 'four-flusher' or 'four-flushing'? |url=http://archives.stupidquestion.net/sq91902fourflusher.html |access-date=2009-03-05 |date=2002-08-22 |quote=A four-flusher originally was someone who bluffs or otherwise can’t back up his or her bragging |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100126085037/http://archives.stupidquestion.net/sq91902fourflusher.html |archive-date=January 26, 2010}} <!-- This is not a reliable source, but it is better than nothing --></ref>
Optimal strategies for bluffing or [[folding (poker)|folding]] when holding a four flush have been explored extensively in [[poker strategy]] books.<ref name="nytbooks">{{cite news
| quote = From one of the book's many tables, ''Optimal Strategy for'' ''the Four Flusher,'' we learn that if you hold four cards to a flush, have called the opening bettor and have failed to make your flush, you should bluff once in every two cases that you can make a bet the size of the pot.}}</ref><ref name="henry-holt">{{cite book
| last = Silberstang
| title = The Winner's Guide to Casino Gambling
| accessdate = 2009-03-05
| year = 2005
| publisher = Henry Holt & Company
| isbn = 0-8050-7765-0
| page = 376}}</ref><ref name="Wenzel">{{cite book
| title = The Everything Texas Hold'em Book
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LChhsFBJDJIC&q=%22four+flush%22&pg=PA118
| accessdate = 2009-03-05
| year = 2006
| publisher = Everything Books
| isbn = 1-59337-579-4
| page = 118}}</ref><ref name="Chance">{{cite book
| last = Levinson
| title = Chance, Luck, and Statistics
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=o3p7AArQRLsC&q=%22four+flush%22&pg=PA129
| accessdate = 2009-03-05
| year = 2001
| publisher = Courier Dover Publications
| isbn = 0-486-41997-5
| page = 129}}</ref><ref name="everything">{{cite book
| last = Wenzel
| title = The Everything Poker Strategy Book
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4F68A1b826IC&q=%22four+flush%22&pg=PT227
| accessdate = 2009-03-05
| year = 2004
| publisher = Everything Books
| isbn = 1-59337-140-3}}</ref>
==In media==
[[File:Hale Hamilton The Four Flusher Film Daily 1919.png|thumb|200px|right|1919 film ''The Four Flusher'']]
The first [[
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1908/09/28/archives/roosevelt-fourflusher-gov-haskell-again-attacks-the-president-to.html
}}</ref>
[[Metro Pictures]] released a comedy titled ''The Four-Flusher'' in 1919
''The Four Flusher'' is the name of an American comedy written in 1925.<ref name="comedy">{{cite book
| last = Dunn
| first = Caesar
| title = The Four-flusher: An American Comedy in Three Acts
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lx-kGQAACAAJ&q=%22four+flusher%22+source:%22-newswire%22+source:%22-wire%22+source:%22-presswire%22+source:%22-pr%22+source:%22-press%22+source:%22-release%22+source:%22-wikipedia%22
| accessdate = 2009-03-05
| year = 1925
| publisher = S. French}}</ref>
In the 1926 silent film ''[[The Show-Off (1926 film)|The Show-Off]]'', the character Clara (played by [[Louise Brooks]]) refers to the character Aubrey Piper (played by [[Ford Sterling]]) as a four-flusher meaning he is a braggart or a person who makes false or pretentious claims. In the film, his "four-flushing" has resulted in the loss of money needed to pay for the mortgage on the Fisher family home.
In the 1933 Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup, Groucho Marx's character Rufus T. Firefly refers to Ambassador Trentino as a “four-flushing swine” <ref>{{cite web | url= https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Wh66FXZJQ | title= Duck Soup YouTube | website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref>
In the 1941 movie, ''[[Hellzapoppin' (film)|Hellzapoppin']]'' the character Pepi (played by Mischa Auer) is called a four flusher.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcB3_jCXBKg | title=Hellzapoppin (1941), complete movie 1/6 | website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref>
In the 1945 film ''[[Detour (1945 film)|Detour]]'' Tom Neal's character calls another character a four-flusher. (The other character is named Charlie Haskell Jr., echoing the name of the Oklahoma governor mentioned above.)
In the 1948 film ''[[Homecoming (1948 film)|Homecoming]]'' starring Clark Gable, one of the characters calls Gable's character a "four flusher".
Following his dismissal of Gen. MacArthur as Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in 1951, President Harry Truman confided to Merle Miller that Gen. George Marshall referred to MacArthur as a "four-flusher and no two ways about it".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Manchester |first1=William |title=American Caesar |url=https://archive.org/details/americancaesar00will |url-access=registration |date=October 1979 |publisher=Dell Publishing |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/americancaesar00will/page/802 802] |isbn=9780440104131 |edition=1st}}</ref>
A [[Popeye]] cartoon released in 1954 was titled "Floor Flusher",<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q123581667|title=Floor Flusher (1954)}}</ref> as a pun on four flusher.
In the 1967 Disney film [[The Jungle Book (1967 film)|''The Jungle Book'']], Bagheera calls Baloo a "four-flusher" when he sees that Baloo is still alive after believing that he was dead.
[[The Doobie Brothers]] included the song "Double Dealin' Four Flusher" in their 1975 album ''[[Stampede (The Doobie Brothers album)|Stampede]]''.<ref name="Worcester">{{cite web
| last = McLennan
| first = Scott
| title = The Doobie Brothers comes back around again
| url = http://www.telegram.com/article/20070621/NEWS/706210355/1102
| work = Worcester Telegram & Gazette
| accessdate = 2009-03-05
| date = 2007-06-21
| quote = Most recently, the band returned to the 1975 album 'Stampede' to work up a new arrangement of 'Double Dealin’ Four Flusher.'}}</ref>
The phrase was used frequently by screenwriter [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|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 is used by the mafia boss Johnny in the fictional film ''Angels with Even Filthier Souls''. In ''[[Uncle Buck]]'', a quite drunk Pooter the Clown calls Buck a four flusher when ordered to leave the family home, which results in Buck punching the clown right in the face.
In 2014 a screenplay by the name of FourFlush was written by [[Harley Evseichik]]
==See also==
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