I recall a meeting in which someone used the expression "flush out" and was corrected by someone else with "flesh out", which prompted a third to posit that the

I recall a meeting in which someone used the expression "flush out" and was corrected by someone else with "flesh out", which prompted a third to posit that the correct expression was "fletch out", claiming the true origin of the expression was in arrow-making. Would have been better delivered while leaving the meeting, making for a "Parthian shot".