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Originally Posted by Easy 6
 I'd always heard it was in reference to Errol Flynn, and the ease with which he used to get the ladies
I'll have to google that...
edit* the sexual connotation was added years after the phrase was created, but it is indeed in reference to Errol Flynn
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Well, I guess we both are right then.
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The 1967 James Coburn starred in the film, In Like Flint. This was a sequel to the 1966 Our Man Flint and presumably the screenwriters, on the lookout for another 'Flint' phrase, opted for a play on 'In like Flynn'. There's now some confusion between the two phrases and some use 'In like Flint' as if it were synonymous with 'In like Flynn'.
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