brer rabbit

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Определение brer rabbit в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

Any specific rabbit; used to personify a rabbit in a story

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.

The hero of the Uncle Remus stories

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

Any trickster, or unusually quick and clever, figure

the main character in the children's stories by Joel Chandler Harris. Brer Rabbit is a clever rabbit from the South of the US, who always manages to escape from danger or from being caught, usually by running into a brier patch (=group of bushes with sharp points on their branches)

Расстановка переносов

brer rab·bit

Этимология

() Abbreviation of Brother Rabbit