Posted by Adam Quinan on February 19, 2005 at 22:00:26 from 65.48.152.132 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Pull devil, pull baker posted by Ed Kiser on February 19, 2005 at 16:14:44:
Come to think of it, skinning a rabbit was exactly the kind of time my mother used the phrase, just like skinning a tight sweater off her children.
She would have been almost the same age and social class as the D's and was brought up nowhere near the Broads, yet she used the phrase.