Brewer's: Spring Gardens

(London). So called from a playfully contrived waterwork, which, on being unguardedly pressed by the foot, sprinkled the bystanders with water. (James I., etc.)

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