/ · 1894 Brewer’s · N · Non Plus (“no more” can be said on the subject)
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When a man is come to a non-plus in an argument, it means that he is unable to deny or controvert what is advanced against him. “To non-plus” a person is to put him into such a fix.
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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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