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In for a Penny in for a Pound

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I may as well “be hung for a sheep as a lamb.” If the punishment is the same, then it is worth the risk to commit the offence which brings the greatest profit.

 

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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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Improve the Occasion (To)
Improvisators
Improvisatrix or Improvisatrice
In Cæna Domini
In Commendam (Latin)
In Esse (Latin)
In Extenso (Latin)
In Extremis
In Fieri
In Flagrante Delicto
In for a Penny in for a Pound
In for It
In Forma Pauperis
In Gremio Legis
In Limine (Latin)
In Loco Parentĭs
In Medias Res
In Memoriam
In Nubibus
In Partibus [Infidelium]
In Perpetnam (Latin)