From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwith a flourishwith a flourishSHOW/LET somebody SEE somethingwith a large confident movement that makes people notice you He opened his wallet with a flourish and took out a handful of notes. → flourish
Examples from the Corpus
with a flourish• In Hong Kong, equities ended 1995 with a flourish, with the benchmark index at a high for the year.• The first writer to make the connection was Polydore Vergil, whose version became, with flourishes, the standard Tudor account.• The season ended with a flourish.• He then shot 11 straight pars before finishing with a flourish and a birdie on the last.• Mr. Darcy swept back his hat with a flourish.• I encourage them to make more of their homework, to do it with a flourish and with spirit.• They did, however, start off with a flourish with two penalties by out-half Ricky Adair.• His grey hat, which he swept off with a flourish as the ladies approached, was set at a jaunty angle. 