Know you

    ‘Know you.’ he said accusingly. ‘But you’re not a bobby — too well-dressed. Army? No-o, too clever for that. Haven’t got the sneaky look of a politician, either, and I doubt if I owe you money, or I’d recognise you. Well, dammit, who are you?’


Mr American, p.385, Pan Books, paperback edition 1982.



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Jingling her loot

      “Och, isn’t he the wee duck?” sighs she, jingling her loot as he hobbled away. “Aye, weel, mony a mickle mak’s a muckle, as Papa used to say.” She slipped it into her bag and broke into civilised speech.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.229, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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No currency

Reputation and credit, there’s no currency to touch them.



Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.355, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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Two little words

      Well, I always say, credit and cash, you can never have too much of either...



Flashman and the Dragon, p.145, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.



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First law of economics

Old Professor Flashy’s first law of economics is that the time to beware of a pretty woman is not when you’re flush with cash (well, you know what she’d after, and what’s a bankroll more or less?), but when you’re short of the scratch, and she offers to set you right. Because that ain’t natural, and God knows what she’s up to.

Flashman and the Dragon, p.9, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.

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A downier bird

There wasn’t a downier bird in all India than Nicholson, or one who knew the country better, and you could have trusted him with anything, money even.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.61, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Middle-aged moneybags

He was the sort of friend you’d expect Morrison to have – a middle-aged moneybags of a banker called Locke, with reach-me-down whiskers and a face like a three-day corpse.

Flash For Freedom!, p.23, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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Flashman don't fret

However, I’ve seen too much of life to fret over ifs and buts. There’s nothing you can do about them, and if you find yourself at the end of the day an octogenarian with money in the bank and drink in the house – well, you’d be a fool to wish that things had fallen out differently.

Royal Flash, p.57, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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He was greedy

But he was greedy, and I've lived long enough to discover that there isn't any folly a man won't contemplate if there's money or a woman at stake.



Flashman, p. 49, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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