rob Peter to pay Paul
rob Peter to pay Paul traditional saying, late Middle English; meaning to take away from one person or cause in order to give to another. In early examples, the use of Peter and Paul apparently represents no more than a conjunction of alliterative names, but in later use the phrase seems to have been influenced by the association of the apostles Peter and Paul as leaders of the early Church and fellow martyrs.
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