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Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings | | English term or phrase: die was cast | | it is an idiom |
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Explanation:
the die is cast
The fateful decision has been made, there is no turning back now. Here 'die' is the singular of 'dice' and the expression has been known in English since at least 1634. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, after coming from Gaul and advancing into Italy against Pompey (49 BC), he is supposed to have said 'Jacta alea est' - 'the dice have been thrown' (although he actually said it in Greek).
At 4 a.m. on June 5 the die was irrevocably cast: the invasion would be launched on June 6 [1944: the D-Day landings in Normandy]. Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War (Vol. 5,1952)
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