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in the flush of

Also, in the first or full flush of. During a sudden rush of a strong positive feeling regarding something, as in In the first flush of victory he decided to take all his friends to dinner. This expression employs flush in the sense of “a bout of emotion or passion.” [c. 1600]

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Words nearby in the flush of

in the face of, in the family way, in the final analysis, in the first place, in the flesh, in the flush of, in the fullness of time, in the groove, in the gutter, in the hands of, in the heat of
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