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Peter
(See Blue Peter.)
Great Peter.
A bell in York Minister, weighing 10 3/4 tons, and hung in 1845. Lord Peter. The Pope in Swift's Tale ej'a Tub.
Rob Peter to pay Paul.
(See Robbing.)
St. Peter.
Patron saint of fishers and fishmongers, being himself a fisherman. St. Peter, in Christian art, is represented as an old man, bald,
but with a flowing beard; he is usually dressed in a white mantle and
blue tunic, and holds in his hand a book or scroll. His peculiar
symbols are the keys, and a sword, the instrument of his martyrdom.
He has got St. Peter's fingers
—i.e. the fingers of a thief. The allusion is to the fish
caught by St. Peter with a piece of money in its mouth. They say that a
thief has a fish-hook on every finger.
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