Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Flay a Fox

(To). To vomit.

“At the time of the paroxysm he used to flay a fox by way of antidote.” —Rabelais: Pantagruol iv. 44.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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