Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Spun

(To be) Exhausted, undone, ruined.

I shall be spun. There is a voice within
Which tells me plainly I am all undone;
For though I toil not, neither do I spin,
I shall be spun.

Robert Murray (1863).

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