1894 Brewer’s / D / Dead-Sea Fruit
Fair to the eye, but nauseous to the taste; full of promise, but without reality. (See Apples of Sodom.)
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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.