TO GO TO PIGS-AND-WHISTLES, verb phr. (Scots’).—To be ruined.

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  1801.  The Har’st Rig, 48.

        The back-ga’en fell ahint,
        And couldna stand;
So he TO PIGS AND WHISTLES WENT,
        And left the land.

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  1823.  GALT, The Entail, i. 9. I would be nane surprised the morn to hear that the Nechabudnezzar was a’ GANE TO PIGS AND WHISTLES, and driven out wi’ the divors bill to the barren pastures of bankruptcy.

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