JOE MILLER

Joe″ Mil″ler (?). [[From Joseph Miller, a comic actor, whose name was attached, after his death, to a popular jest book published in 1739.]] A jest book; a stale jest; a worn-out joke. It is an old Joe Miller in whist circles, that there are only two reasons that can justify you in not returning trumps to your partner's lead; i.e., first, sudden illness; secondly, having none. Pole.