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Ribbon Dodge
(The). Plying a person secretly with threatening letters
in order to drive him out of the neighbourhood, or to compel him to do
something he objects to. The Irish Ribbon men sent threatening letters
or letters containing coffins, cross-bones, or daggers, to obnoxious
neighbours.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Ribbon Dodge from Infoplease:
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