Flush with success

Add comment May 31st, 2008

A “flush” can be a gush, as in a rapid flow of water; a rush, as in a sudden flight of birds; and a blush, as in red in the face. It also can mean all squared up (as in, “the door was flush with the floor”) and square in the face (”The punch caught him flush on the jaw”).

However, it is NOT the word to use with “out” to mean to fill out or to realize or make full with additional details. That word is “flesh,” as in, “Go back to your sources so we can flesh out this story.”