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It can go back to the story of Adam and Eve as once you have bitten the apple, biting it again makes no difference.
In more modern times, it seems to come from the game of bobbing for apples,, that you get only one chance to actually "bite the apple" and getting a second chance is unlikely.
This moved into a legal parlance as "you cannot have a second bite a the apple" meaning, once a sentence is made, getting another try is futile.
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∙ 13y agoUnknown. It means you need to try again. It was probably from a farmer mother. They say phrases like that all the time.
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