Posted by Peter Willis on September 10, 2002 at 18:19:59 from 195.92.168.163 user PeterWillis.
In Reply to: Re: Pull devil, pull baker posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on September 06, 2002 at 22:27:07:
Andrew's description is intriguing, and entertaining, but it seems to me to get us no closer to the origin of the phrase. Somewhere in the back of my mind I connect it with a folk tale, involving a baker and the devil tussling over something or other - a very Ransomeish reference, but I can't quite place it - can anyone else help?