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That’s not Peru. Said of something utterly worthless. A French expression, founded on the notion that Peru is the El Dorado of the world.
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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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