The first
governor of Oklahoma,
Charles N. Haskell, denounced
president and political opponent
Theodore Roosevelt, calling him a "four flusher".
Metro Pictures released the comedy
The Four Flusher in 1919. Several other films have the term in their titles. In the 1922
Harold Lloyd silent film
Dr. Jack, the phrase "a four flusher" is used to describe the doctor in charge of "The Sick-Little-Well-Girl" in the city.
The Four Flusher is the name of an American comedy written in 1925. In the 1941 movie ''
Hellzapoppin''', Pepi (
Mischa Auer) is called a four flusher. In the 1945 film
Detour, Tom Neal's character calls another character, Charlie Haskell Jr. (echoing the name of the Oklahoma governor), a four flusher. In the 1948 film
Homecoming,
Clark Gable's character is called a four flusher. After dismissing
Douglas MacArthur as Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in 1951, President
Harry Truman told Merle Miller that General
George Marshall had called MacArthur a "four flusher and no two ways about it". A 1954
Popeye cartoon is titled "Floor Flusher", a pun on "four flusher". In the 1967 Disney film
The Jungle Book, Bagheera calls Baloo a "four flusher" when he sees that Baloo is still alive after believing that he was dead.
The Doobie Brothers' song "Double Dealin' Four Flusher" is on their 1975 album
Stampede.{{cite web The phrase was used frequently by screenwriter
John Hughes as something of a trademark. In ''
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Clark refers to his boss as "four flushing" in his tirade over his corporate Christmas present. In Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, it is used by the mafia boss Johnny in the fictional film Angels with Even Filthier Souls
. In Uncle Buck'', a quite drunk Pooter the Clown calls Buck a four flusher when ordered to leave the family home, which results in Buck punching the clown in the face. In 2014, a screenplay called
FourFlush was written by Harley Evseichik. ==See also==