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A phrase used in "An Experiment concerning the Spirit of Coals", a letter to Robert Boyle from John Clayton. Its literal meaning would be that the preassure created during the experiment was enough to breeak the "lute", which was a substance used to make seals between various chemistry apparatus (1) A more modern use of the phrase thats recently started to recently arise, is to use it as an alternative to "grinds my gears" (2)
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