Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Petticoat

A woman.

“There's a petticoat will prove to be the cause of this.” —Hawley Smart: Struck Down, chap. xi.

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