1894 Brewer’s / T / Tommy Dodd
The “odd” man who, in tossing up, either wins or loses according to agreement with his confederate. There is a music-hall song so called, in which Tommy Dodd is the “knowing one.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.