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Brewer's: Peep-o'-Day Boys
The Irish insurgents of 1784; so called because they used to visit the houses of their opponents (called defenders) at peep of day searching for arms or plunder.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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