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The die is cast. The step is taken, and I cannot draw back. So said Julius Cæsar when he crossed the Rubicon.        

“I have set my life upon the cast,

And I will stand the hazard of the die.”

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Shakespeare: Richard III., v. 4.

 

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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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Dickey or Dicky
Dicky (A)
Dicky Sam
Dictator of Letters
Didactic Poetry
Diddle (To)
Diddler (Jeremy)
Diderick
Dido
Die
Die
Die-hards
Diego (San)
Diēs Alliensis
Diēs Iræ
Diēs Non
Diēs Sanguinis
Dietrich
Dieu
Difference