Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—J

J. J.

(In Hogarth's Gin Lane, written on a gibbet), is intended for Sir Joseph Jekyll, obnoxious for his bill for increasing the duty on gin.

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