Redding-straik(A). A blow received by a peacemaker, who interferes between two combatants to red or separate them; proverbially, the severest blow a man can receive. “Said I not to ye, `Make not, meddle not;' beware of the
redding-straik?” — Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Redding-straik from Infoplease:
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