They first appeared in The Daily Mirror (London, England) of Monday 12 th May 1919: This comic strip was created and written by Bertram John Lamb (1887-1938) under the pseudonym of Uncle Dick, and drawn by Austin Bowen Payne (1876-1956).Īt first, only Pip and Squeak featured in the comic strip. This phrase alludes to Pip, Squeak and Wilfred, a trio of animal characters, respectively a dog, a penguin and a rabbit, featured in a children’s comic strip published in The Daily Mirror (London, England) and in the Sunday Pictorial (London, England) from 1919 to 1940 (a post-WW2 revival never really caught on). "We will get out of her all you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more," the penitent shouted, "I will squeeze her until you can hear the pips squeak" his policy was to take every bit of property belonging to Germans in neutral and Allied countries, and all her gold and silver and her jewels, and the contents of her picture-galleries and libraries, to sell the proceeds for the Allies' benefit.The British-English phrase Pip, Squeak and Wilfred (also Pip, Squeak and Wilfrid) denotes a group of three objects or persons. An earlier speech in which, in a moment of injudicious candour, he had cast doubts on the possibility of extracting from Germany the whole cost of the war had been the object of serious suspicion, and he had therefore a reputation to regain. The grossest spectacle was provided by Sir Eric Geddes in the Guildhall at Cambridge.
To squeeze (something) until the pips squeak "exact the maximum from" is attested by 1918, from pip (n.1). Pip and Squeak (and later Wilfred), the beloved English comic strip animals, debuted May 1919 in the children's section of the Daily Mirror. In World War I it was the soldier's slang name for a small German shell "which makes both a pip and a squeak when it comes over the trenches". Also pip-squeak, contemptuous name for an insignificant person, 1910, from the trivial noise a young or weak creature makes.
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