To whistle or sing in the cage. The cage is a jail, and to whistle in a cage is to turn Queen’s evidence, or peach against a comrade.
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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.
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