Brewer's: Bow-street Runners

Detectives who scoured the country to find criminals, before the introduction of the police force. Bow Street, near Covent Garden, London, is where the principal police-court stands. (This bow rhymes with flow.)

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