Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Slick

(Sam). A Yankee clock-maker and pedlar, wonderfully 'cute, a keen observer, and with plenty of “soft sawder.” Judge Haliburton wrote the two series called Sam Slick, or the Clock-maker.

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