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All is lost

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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All and Some
All and Sundry
All cannot do all
All Fools Day (April 1st)
All Fours
All-hallown Summer
All Hallow’s Day (November 1st)
All Hallows Eve
All in all
All in the Wrong
All is lost
All is not gold that glitters or glisters
All my Eye (and) Betty Martin
All one
All-overish
All Saints
All Serene
All Souls Day
All the go
All there
All this for a Song!