Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Let us Eat and Drink: for tomorrow we shall Die

(Isaiah xxii. 13). The Egyptians in their banquets exhibited a skeleton to the guests, to remind them of the brevity of human life saying as they did so, “Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.”

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