Peter Peebles
. Peter Peeblesʹ Lawsuit. In Sir Walter Scott’s novel of Redgauntlet. Peter is a litigious hard-hearted drunkard, poor as a churchmouse, and a liar to the backbone. His “ganging plea” is Hogarthian comic, as Carlyle says.
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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.