stave-in

Updated: June 21, 2025

Some of the shrewder ones said: "We have barely a year, a month, a week to live! We are full of youth, of desires, of ardor! Let us put the short period to profit! Let us stave-in our wine casks, let us indulge ourselves freely in wine and women!"

Eugène Sue - The Infant's Skull: Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium