Brewer's: Non Plus

(“no more” can be said on the subject). When a man is come to a non-plus in an argument, it means that he is unable to deny or controvert what is advanced against him. “To non-plus” a person is to put him into such a fix.

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