Chapter Flea to Flins of F by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Flick To strike with a quick jerk. To "flick a whip in one's face" is to strike the face with the lash and draw the whip suddenly back again. (Anglo-Saxon, fliccerian; Scotch, flicker; Danish, flikkeren, to twinkle, etc.)

Flies (See Fly .)

Fling
   I must have a fling at... Throw a stone at something. To attack with words, especially sarcastically. To make a haphazard venture. Allusion is to hurling stones from slings.
   To have his fling. To live on the loose for a time. To fling about his time and money like "ducks and drakes."

"If he is young, he desires to have his `fling' before he is compelled to settle down" - Nineteenth Century (February,1892, p. 208).

Fling Herself at my Head (To). To make desperate love to a man; to angle obviously to catch a certain individual for a husband.

"`Coxcomb?' said Lance; `why, 'twas but last night the whole family saw her ... fling herself at my head.'" - Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak, chap. vii.

Flins [a stone ]. An idol of the ancient Vandals settled in Lusace. It was a huge stone, draped, wearing a lion's skin over its shoulders, and designed to represent death. Mr. Lower says that the town of Flint in North Wales is named in honour of this stone deity, and gives Alwin Flint in Suffolk as another example. (Pat. Brit.)
   The Welsh call Flint Flint Teg-cingl (Flin's beautiful band or girdle).