flush
3
7.1
- noun
- /flʌʃ/
:
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- In the flush of success, though, he overreached himself.
You'll find to the one the young men rush to share with you in the first flush of reporting.
- You'll find to the one the young men rush to share with you in the first flush of reporting.
- It's bad policy in flush times, in good economic times like we have now to not cushion for the bad times, that's bad policy.
Examples
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Dazed by our rerun culture, we remember the decade as a flush.
Academic text (2007) -
In the first flush of enthusiasm
Academic text (1993) -
You married in the first flush of your youth.
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We're in the first flush.
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There's always so little to talk about after the first flush of recognition.
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Just imagine the chaos if they decided, in the flush of their initial success, to export their revolutionary model?
Fiction book (1997) -
The late '50s were flush times for the scholar.
Academic text (2007) -
After the first flush of Cabinet appointments, which were announced before President Clinton's inauguration in January, other nominations came more slowly.
Academic text (1993) -
My mother, who was middle class by Romanian standards, found herself immensely impoverished after her first flush of material well-being.
Academic text (2010) -
During the flush of economic growth, many new businesses were established.
Synonyms
368
2.1
The highest point something reaches, like a mountain or an achievement
214
2.8
A time of fast growth in the economy and more jobs
195
3.7
A time when people or a country have money and success
104
5.4
Period when a person or thing is at its best
54
5.0
The time in life when a person is most active and successful
31
5.8
A time when someone or something is most successful
26
4.1
A time when a country, the arts, or a person has great success
16
3.2
A time when a person or thing is at its best
14
6.3
A lot of money and valuable things that a person or place has
7
4.1
A time when something is most successful or active
A time when something grows strongly and reaches its best stage
Antonyms
Compounds
- Jargon
1
9.9
A poker hand missing one card to make five cards of the same suit and worth little
- Archaic
An attempt to trick others by pretending to have a strong poker hand or more success than you have
How Prosperous
Surface Forms
Etymology
A flush of success or produce is a time when things 'flow' easily and you have abundance; the root flu- 'to flow' links this sense to the idea of plenty.