Brewer's: Metra

Qu'en dit Metra (Louis XVI.)? Metra was a noted news-vendor of Paris before the Revolution- a notability with a cocked hat, who went about with his hands folded behind his back.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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