TO MAKE A PEASE-KILL, verb. phr. (Scots’ colloquial).—To squander lavishly: e.g., when a man’s affairs go wrong and interested persons get the management of his property it is said ‘They’re makin’ a bonny PEASE-KILL o’t.’ A law-suit is said to be a PEASE-KILL for the lawyers. [JAMIESON.]
