Cage.

To whistle or sing in the cage. The cage is a jail, and to whistle in a cage is to turn Queen’s evidence, or peach against a comrade.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Cædmon
Cærite Franchise (The)
Caerleon
Cæsar
Cæsarian Operation
Cæsarism
Cæteris paribus (Latin)
Caf (Mount)
Caftan
Cag Mag
Cage
Cagliostro
Cagots
Cahors
Caiaphas
Cain-coloured Beard
Cainites
Cairds
Caius (Dr.)
Cake
Cake