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Originally Posted by Easy 6
 I'd always heard it was in reference to Errol Flynn, and the ease with which he used to get the ladies
I'll have to google that...
edit* the sexual connotation was added years after the phrase was created, but it is indeed in reference to Errol Flynn
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From the wiki on the phrase "In like Flynn":
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Quinion also notes that the title of the film In Like Flint (1967) is a play on the term, and that has led to a malapropism where some speakers believe that is the original phrase.[1]
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I was in the In Like Flint camp, I admit.