Brewer's: Dicers' Oaths

False as dicers' oaths. Worthless or untrustworthy, as when a gambler swears never to touch dice again. (Shakespeare: Hamlet, iii. 4.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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