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  • flash of lightning → complementing Thon's thunder
  • flash: to expose oneself indecently in public
  • flash: showy; vulgar; of, like or pertaining to criminals (slang); fashionable (archaic)

Lord of the Lash: U.S. Senator Charles Sumner described the two factions of the American Civil War as "between the cotton-planters and flesh-mongers of Louisiana and Mississippi and the cotton-spinners and traffickers of New England, — between the lords of the lash and the lords of the loom."