Brewer's: Gautier

and Garguille (French). All the world and his wife.

Se mocquer de Gautier et de Garguille
(to make fun of everyone). Gautier-Garguille was a clown of the seventeenth century, who gave himself unbounded licence, and provoked against himself a storm of angry feeling.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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