Tar-Baby
American Folklore character and metaphor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Tar Baby" redirects here. For other uses, see Tar Baby (disambiguation).
The Tar-Baby is the second of the Uncle Remus stories published in 1881; it is about a doll made of tar and turpentine used by the villainous Br'er Fox to entrap Br'er Rabbit. The more that Br'er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more entangled he becomes.
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In modern usage, tar-baby refers to a problematic situation that is only aggravated by additional involvement with it.[1]