/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Spun (To be)
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Exhausted, undone, ruined.
“I shall be spun. There is a voice within
Which tells me plainly I am all undone;
For though I toil not, neither do I spin,
I shall be spun.”
Robert Murray (1863).
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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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