To betray, to impeach, to turn king’s evidence. The allusion is to the words of Jesus to the beloved disciple—he will be the traitor “to whom I shall give a sop when I have dipped it,” etc. (John xiii. 26.)
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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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