Brewer's: Sine Die

(Latin). No time being fixed; indefinitely in regard to time. When a proposal is deferred sine die, it is deferred without fixing a day for its reconsideration, which is virtually “for ever.”

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