Presbyterian road, the wrong way of passing a bottle.
Who doesn’t love a repressed Presbyterian?! (Thanks a lot, Marilynne Robinson.) Seriously though, Douglas Stuart is simply one of the best contemporary novelists writing: Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo, and out just today…
Since she is Presbyterian herself, I am aware she won’t be including God, Jesus or any of that. But considering the animator’s theological knowledge and her including of even the tiniest details, especially with the…
Presbyterian road, the wrong way of passing a bottle. Chs.18; (2) — trick, a dishonest bargain, a knavish trick. Ess.1
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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Thomas Bayes was a presbyterian minister.
(slang) A fictitious religious affiliation, invoked by a person who does not claim or admit affiliation with a particular church.