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I CAN'T agree with Rod Pickles's tenuous rhyming slang interpretation of Pop Goes The Weasel (Letters). Volume III of The Modern Tailor, Outfitter And Clothier, which includes a glossary of technical and trade terms, defines a weasel as a long, thin pressing iron, the most easily spared of all tailors' irons, hence the first to be 'popped' (pawned).
There is also another verse to the rhyme which continues the tailoring association: 'A penny for a cotton ball, a ha'penny for a needle; That's the way the money goes, pop goes the weasel.'See the full content of this document
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