2006-07-12 09:24:18 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Birds
If I can redress the question;-
Why is the term 'Stool Pidgeon' used when referring to a police informer?
2006-07-12 19:24:12 · update #1
A stool pidgeon
Meaning
A police informer.
Origin
Hunters used to use decoy pigeons fixed to posts (stools) to lure their quarry. The term was later adopted to describe people who helped the police by luring criminals into police traps. It later came to mean anyone who helped the police by informing on others.
2006-07-12 09:41:13 · answer #1 · answered by englands.glory 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well since your in the bird section you must be talking about an actual pidgon so are you trying to say you have a pidgon on a stool
2006-07-12 10:59:36 · answer #2 · answered by g-day mate 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it needed to sit down for a change.
2006-07-12 09:35:48 · answer #3 · answered by blondehairlesswombat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
now used to infer a person is an informer,see this site for its origins.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sto2.htm
2006-07-12 09:33:38 · answer #4 · answered by TAFF 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rat fink
2006-07-12 09:30:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are you saying?
2006-07-12 09:29:19 · answer #6 · answered by fatwhale90 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋