Brewer's: Obstinate

The name of an inhabitant of the City of Destruction, who advised Christian to return to his family, and not run on fools' errands. (Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress, pt. i.)

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