/ · 1894 Brewer’s · L · Let us Eat and Drink; for tomorrow we shall Die (Isaiah xxii. 13)
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The Egyptians in their banquets exhibited a skeleton to the guests, to remind them of the brevity of human life saying as they did so, “Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.”
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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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