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widow's_cruse

widow's cruse

English

Noun

widow's cruse (plural widow's cruses)

  1. An inexhaustible supply, oftentimes of something that appears meager.
    • 2005, Jan Toporowski, Theories of financial disturbance:
      Thus profits, as a source of capital increment for entrepreneurs, are a widow's cruse which remains undepleted however much of them may be devoted to riotous living.