Brewer's: Friar Rush

A house-spirit, sent from the infernal regions in the seventeenth century to keep the monks and friars in the same state of wickedness they were then in. The legends of this roysterer are of German origin. (Brüder Rausch, brother Tipple.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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