Brewer's: Fare Well

(To). You cannot fare well but you must cry out roast meat. Don't blazon your good fortune on the house-top. “Sorex suo perit indicio.” Terence has the same idea: “Egomet meo indicio miser, quasi sorex, hodie pemi.” (Eunuchus, v. 7, 23.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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