Brewer's: Sam Weller

Servant of Mr. Pickwick, famous for his metaphors. He is meant to impersonate the wit, shrewdness, quaint humour, and best qualities of London low life. (CharlesDickens: Pickwick Papers.)

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