Brer Rabbit

Proper noun

Brer Rabbit

1. The hero of the Uncle Remus stories.
   • who believe that Microsoft actually wants to be broken up (the Brer Rabbit solution),2000 May 9, Bill Mann, “Microsoft Ain't AT&T”, in The Motley Fool
2. Any specific rabbit; used to personify a rabbit in a story
   • BRER RABBIT came pacing down the road, lippity-clippity, clippity-lippity, just as sassy as a jaybird. And then he saw Chester the dog, who might just as well have been Brer Fox.2005 September 27, Alan Hamilton, “How Chester the labrador was caught on hop by a wily bunny”, in The Times
3. Any trickster, or unusually quick and clever, figure.
   • Mr. Smith, the Brer Rabbit of House of Commons Leaders, "lay low and said nuffin."1892, Henry Lucy, A Diary of the Salisbury Parliament, 1886-1892, page 34
   • He was the "Br'er Rabbit" of politics — he lay low so that the hunters of the other side could not see him to point their guns at him.1914, William Edgar Sackett, Modern Battles of Politics, volume 2, page 308