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Brewer's: Pickle
A rod in pickle. One ready to chastise with at any moment. Pickled means preserved for use. (Danish, pekel.)
“How camst thou in this pickle?”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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