Bale.
When bale is highest, boot is nighest. When things have come to the worst they must needs mend.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
When bale is highest, boot is nighest. When things have come to the worst they must needs mend.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.