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01-10-2008, 04:58 PM
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razmuz,
Sorry, but "flash in the pan" is a well documented phrase regarding a flintlock that set off the pan powder, but not the main charge; everyone in 18th and 19th Century America understood the meaning. On page 551 of Webster's New World Dictionary it says, ""flash in the pan"-an ineffectual flash of the priming in the pan of a flintlock musket, which fails to explode the charge. You may know of some process for distilling alcohol that Webster did not know about, BUT the more common meaning applied to a flintlock, usually in times of greatest need. Adam
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Adam Helmer Last edited by Adam Helmer; 01-10-2008 at 05:05 PM. 
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