BEg2 ch 12 babe in the window?

[Michael Bailey]

Tallis: “I’m supposed to be the comptroller, but when I bring any of it up
with Gabe, he gets evasive. I’m beginning to feel like the babe in the
window.”

Is “babe in the window” a thing?


Paucity of Google results, like 10 references to the same line in a song by
Coffee Boi which didn’t come out till 2018 -

And 1 to a cartoon of a “babe” (attractive woman) standing in a window and
making a naive comment about the neighbor’s interest in telescopes

https://www.ebay.com/itm/362719091129