E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Devil among the Tailors (The).
On Dowtons benefit at the Haymarket, some 7,000 journeymen tailors congregated in and around the theatre to prevent a burlesque called The Tailors: a Tragedy for Warm Weather, which they
considered insulting to the trade. Fairburns edition of this play is headed The Devil among the Tailors, and contains an account of this fracas. (See also Biographia Dramatica, article TAILORS.) There is a Scotch reel so called.