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flash around

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flash something around
to display something so everyone can see it. (Usually something one would hold in one's hand.) Don't flash your money around on the streets. She flashed around the pictures of her grandchildren every chance she got.
See also: around, flash
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While 16 vertical strip lights boom and flash around you, the bass throbs in your guts and the synth squelches, squeaks, bleeps and howls, reminiscent of the climax to Raiders Of The Lost Arc where banshees fly out of the golden ottoman and melt Nazi faces; it's glorious, transcendent dance music that can't fail to move you.
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They met in the pub and he gave her a stack of pounds 50 notes in an envelope which she proceeded to flash around.
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n Do not flash around hand held electrical items such as ipods and hand held gaming machines, which could be very attractive to a potential thief.
Bobbies blitz on the buses; SOLIHULL: Police launch Christmas crime ... by Birmingham Mail (England)
 
 
 
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