Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Flats and sharps
subs. phr. (old).—Weapons.
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1818. SCOTT, The Heart of Mid-lothian, ch. xxx. ‘I have known many a pretty lad cut short in his first summer upon the road, because he was something hasty with his FLATS AND SHARPS.’
