This expression originated in the Old South, where uncooperative slaves were often punished by being shipped downstream to the harsh, sweltering plantations of the lower Mississippi. Sell down the river To abandon or desert to turn one’s back on another to delude or take advantage of. The epithet is often applied to an employee who crosses picket lines or more specifically, to a person who takes over the job of a striker for the duration of the work halt. This disparaging expression likens the blue collar maverick to a pus-filled lesion. Scab A worker who resists union membership a union member who refuses to strike. Since Betrayal at Krondor is a canon installment set after four major novels in the setting, obviously some things will need explaining (but the game is actually quite good at explaining what needs to be explained without the player having read the books, I will, of course, provide huge, poorly-remembered lore dumps anyway.). It is generally believed that these slang meanings came by way of comparison with the apostate rats of the proverbial sinking ship, though the older more general ‘scoundrel’ meaning would suffice-rodents having long been objects of aversion and loathing to man. By the 19th century the corresponding verb usage appeared. When I FIRST played it, I didnt realise Owyn was a magical dude, so I was making him staff fight for most of the game >< I always got killed near Rowes. During the 18th century it took on, in political slang, the more specific denotation of traitor or turncoat. The noun rat has been an opprobrious epithet since Elizabethan times. The, 106 Big Money, 664 Big Money, The, 232 Big nap, The, 680 Big over Easy, The. Rat To inform or squeal to desert and turn renegade, to bolt and join the opposition. 339 Betrayal, 436 Betrayal in death, 574 Betrayal: Krondor, The.
The most unkindest cut of all See ADVERSITY. Candour shone from his eyes, as insincere as a Judas kiss.
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