Meaning of Brer Rabbit | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The hero of the Uncle Remus stories.
2. Any specific rabbit; used to personify a rabbit in a story
3. Any trickster, or unusually quick and clever, figure.

Equivalents

Examples

“who believe that Microsoft actually wants to be broken up (the Brer Rabbit solution),”

“BRER RABBIT came pacing down the road, lippity-clippity, clippity-lippity, just as sassy as a jaybird. And then he saw Chester the dog, who might just as well have been Brer Fox.”

“Mr. Smith, the Brer Rabbit of House of Commons Leaders, "lay low and said nuffin."”

“He was the "Br'er Rabbit" of politics — he lay low so that the hunters of the other side could not see him to point their guns at him.”

“It was the combination of a super-smooth shooting dog of radiant style and talent, and a Br'er Rabbit handler that stayed one bounce ahead of the fox.”

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