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Brewer's: Deficit
(Madame). Marie Antoinette. So called because she was always demanding money of her ministers, and never had any. According to the Revolutionary song:
La Boulangère a des ecus Qui ne lui content guère.
(See Baker.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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