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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Pump

To sift, to extract information by indirect questions. In allusion to pumping up water.

“But pump not me for politics.”

Otway.

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