/ · 1894 Brewer’s · A · All is lost
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that is put in a riven dish. In Latin, “Pertūsum quicquid infundĭtur in dolium, perit.” (It is no use helping the insolvent.)
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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.
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