/ · 1894 Brewer’s · P · Pay (sea term)
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To cover with pitch. (Latin, picare, to cover with pitch.)
Here’s the devil to pay, and no pitch hot. (See under Devil.)
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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.
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