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 Driving for Rent,Droit d’Aubaine. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Driving Pigs.
 
He is driving pigs, or driving pigs to market—i.e. snoring like pigs, whose grunt resembles the snore of a sleeper.   1
 


 Driving for Rent,Droit d’Aubaine. 

 
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