A waste-basket; a place where things are stowed, too good to
destroy but not good enough to use. In School theology
unbaptised infants and good heathens go to Limbo. (Latin,
limbus, the edge.) They cannot go to heaven, because they are
not baptised, and they cannot go to the place of torment,
because they have not committed sin at all, or because their
good preponderates. (See Milton: Paradise Lost, bk. iii.) (See
Araf.) Go to limbo—that is, prison. Source: Dictionary of Phrase
and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Limbo from Infoplease:
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