/ · 1894 Brewer’s · R · Redder (The)
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The adviser, the person who redes or interferes. Thus the proverb, “The redder gets aye the warst lick of the fray.”
“Those that in quarrels interpose
Must wipe themselves a bloody nose.”
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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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