"flicked the ash" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is usually used in the context of smoking a cigarette or cigar, when the person removes the ashes from the end of the cigarette or cigar by quickly flicking it away with a finger or a flick of the wrist. Example: The old man sat on the park bench, lost in thought as he flicked the ash from his cigar onto the ground.
"I'm 57, but I feel like I'm 80," Mr. Armstrong said as he flicked the ash of his Newport 100.
In one case, according to Pete White, a community organizer, a man was handcuffed for littering when he flicked the ash from his cigarette on the street.
His father flicked the ash from his Old Gold with his thumbnail at the butt of the cigarette and made no particular effort to see that it landed in the heavy glass ashtray by his wrist.
He wears skinny grey jeans and smokes Marlboro Lights, flicking the ash into an ashtray from the uber-cool Café de Flore in Paris.
Slaves to the rhythm of difference he waits in front for her to lean forwards and flick the ash from his cigarette.
He fidgeted with a package of Marlboros -- he is trying to quit -- until he broke down and lighted one, flicking the ash into a heavy glass ashtray.
He held the cigarette between his first and second fingers throughout the song, sometimes flicking the ash as percussive punctuation; at moments, he was absolutely encased in white smoke.
When reporters chase after the diplomats who walk the long red-carpeted hallway from the delegates' lounge -- some still flicking the ash from their cigarettes -- to the Security Council chambers, as a rule there is an inverse relationship between the speaker's candor about his or her identity and the candor about the question at hand.
Anthropologists agree, Pamuk said through the audio tour, that in Istanbul, where so many people smoke, "the linked actions of hiding and lighting a cigarette, flicking the ash off its end and stubbing it out all form a particular sign language of vast significance".
"He rolled gold dust into his cigarettes and kept flicking the ashes onto the samples the company was taking".
Her fingers flicked away the ash That bloomed again in tropic trees: Not caring if the markets crash When they had forests such as these, Her fingers flicked away the ash.
