flash the ash
verb1
Slang To give somebody a cigarette.
- The lads were sprawled along the upholstered bench behind the pool table, smoking, drinking and larking around as usual. 'Flash the ash,' said Glenn on joining them.2015, Trevor Coote, Lemon Socks, page 65:
- Everyone smoked so if the auditorium was full, the whole room would be filled with smoke in next to no time. It was like the legendary London smog of the 1950s in there sometimes. You took it in turn to “flash the ash” as it was called.2015, Richard Blackshire, Newtown Naughty Boy, page 145:
- Related terms
- flash for cash, flash the cash