Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—J

Judee

La petite Judée (French). The prefecture of police: so called because the bureau is in the Rue de Jérusalem, and those taken there for offences look on the police as their betrayers.

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