Brewer'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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