Brewer's: Pliable

One of Christian's neighbours, who went with him as far as the Slough of Despond, and then turned back again. (Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress, pt. i.)

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