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Water, water everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink

  1. Lines from “ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ,” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge . The speaker, a sailor on a becalmed ship, is surrounded by salt water that he cannot drink.


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Notes

By extension, these lines are used to describe a situation in which someone is in the midst of plenty but cannot partake of it.

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