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Deferentially and apologetically to Reader Hooper; the expression in the hinterlands is not "pert as a barn rat," but applies to sundry persons who are described as having "the cheek of a privy rat."

From Time Magazine Archive

Deferentially he handed it to her, and then he had the pleasure of seeing her write a letter on his note-paper.

From The Red Cross Barge by Lowndes, Marie Belloc