Might mean (unverified): Extract money from the stingy.
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  1. Skin a Flint: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  2. skin a flint: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (skin a flint)

verb:  (hyperbolic, figurative) Go to great lengths to save or gain something, particularly money.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see skin, a, flint.

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