HistoricalBritish Englisharchaicproverbialformal
- A proverbial expression asserting that it is futile to appeal to the same person in a different state; one cannot successfully reverse or re-litigate a decision by appealing to the same authority when that authority is later sober or in a different condition.
- An admonition that an appeal must be made to a different authority, because asking the same individual—whose former decision one contests—to reconsider in another state is unlikely to yield a different verdict.