flitch
- n fish steak usually cut from a halibut
- n salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork
- All other Democrats on the ticket were elected, but Republicans had won the best flitch of political bacon.
- The speaker is a remarkable man, a "rangy, gangling flitch" who broods away his days in the company of the "fops and fools of the coffeehouses" of 17th century London.