King Streetn.

Brit.

/ˈkɪŋ striːt/, U.S.

/ˈkɪŋ ˌstrit/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name King Street.

Etymology: < the street name King Street. In sense 1 with reference to King Street in central Sydney, Australia: see note at sense. In sense 2 with reference to King Street near Covent Garden, London, in which the headquarters of the Communist Party of Great Britain was situated from 1920–80.

I. With reference to a street in Sydney, Australia.

1. Australian. to go up King Street and variants: to go bankrupt; to get into financial difficulties. Now rare.With reference to the location of the Supreme Court in central Sydney, where bankruptcy cases were heard; cf. quot. 1863.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [verb (intransitive)] > become bankrupt

to play (the) bankrupt1548

bankrupt1552

to take Ludgate1585

break1600

to go down the weather1611

to break the bank1623

to go to the right shop1655

to swallow a spider1670

to march off1683

to go off1688

to break up shop1712

bust1834

burst1848

to go up King Street1864

to go bust1875

to go under1882

to belly up1886

1863 Kiama (New S. Wales) Independent 20 Oct. It would look better in one of these fellows to pay me what he owed me, instead of going up into King-street and rubbing it off in that way.]

1864 Sydney Morning Herald 11 Oct. 2/2 I am not going up King-street, as some parties would gladly make you and themselves believe.

1887 Bungendore Mirror 8 Oct. 2 The speculation would not pay at present and could but land us in King-street.

1934 C. Stead Seven Poor Men of Sydney iii. 88 They don't sweat their guts out for a chap who buys..himself a new car when he's up King Street.

1967 S. Shumack Autobiogr. 28 They had a good start in life..but when I met them in 1858 both had been up ‘King Street’.

II. With reference to a street in London, England.

2. The former location of the headquarters of the Communist Party of Great Britain, chiefly used allusively to designate the party, its leadership, or its members. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [noun] > Communist Party or leadership

King Street1949

1949 Economist 5 Mar. 414/2 He would have preferred an electoral strategy thought up in King Street and not in Moscow.

1958 C. Cockburn Crossing Line iii. 49 The place did good business in those days..because the Daily Worker staff and the people from King Street..used it.

1964 C. Driver Disarmers iii. 72 If the King Street commissars were not so invincibly stupid, they would have insisted that the movement be left severely alone.

1972 Observer 8 Oct. 29/2 ‘King Street’ had decided the miners wouldn't end the strike unless they were given 25 per cent. King Street means the headquarters of the Communist Party.

2003 D. Harker Tressell x. 165 He had ‘a very good political record’, was acceptable to King Street, and could ‘put projects in words’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	king street
释义	King Streetn. Brit. /ˈkɪŋ striːt/, U.S. /ˈkɪŋ ˌstrit/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name King Street. Etymology: < the street name King Street. In sense 1 with reference to King Street in central Sydney, Australia: see note at sense. In sense 2 with reference to King Street near Covent Garden, London, in which the headquarters of the Communist Party of Great Britain was situated from 1920–80. I. With reference to a street in Sydney, Australia. 1. Australian. to go up King Street and variants: to go bankrupt; to get into financial difficulties. Now rare.With reference to the location of the Supreme Court in central Sydney, where bankruptcy cases were heard; cf. quot. 1863. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [verb (intransitive)] > become bankrupt to play (the) bankrupt1548 bankrupt1552 to take Ludgate1585 break1600 to go down the weather1611 to break the bank1623 to go to the right shop1655 to swallow a spider1670 to march off1683 to go off1688 to break up shop1712 bust1834 burst1848 to go up King Street1864 to go bust1875 to go under1882 to belly up1886 1863 Kiama (New S. Wales) Independent 20 Oct. It would look better in one of these fellows to pay me what he owed me, instead of going up into King-street and rubbing it off in that way.] 1864 Sydney Morning Herald 11 Oct. 2/2 I am not going up King-street, as some parties would gladly make you and themselves believe. 1887 Bungendore Mirror 8 Oct. 2 The speculation would not pay at present and could but land us in King-street. 1934 C. Stead Seven Poor Men of Sydney iii. 88 They don't sweat their guts out for a chap who buys..himself a new car when he's up King Street. 1967 S. Shumack Autobiogr. 28 They had a good start in life..but when I met them in 1858 both had been up ‘King Street’. II. With reference to a street in London, England. 2. The former location of the headquarters of the Communist Party of Great Britain, chiefly used allusively to designate the party, its leadership, or its members. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [noun] > Communist Party or leadership King Street1949 1949 Economist 5 Mar. 414/2 He would have preferred an electoral strategy thought up in King Street and not in Moscow. 1958 C. Cockburn Crossing Line iii. 49 The place did good business in those days..because the Daily Worker staff and the people from King Street..used it. 1964 C. Driver Disarmers iii. 72 If the King Street commissars were not so invincibly stupid, they would have insisted that the movement be left severely alone. 1972 Observer 8 Oct. 29/2 ‘King Street’ had decided the miners wouldn't end the strike unless they were given 25 per cent. King Street means the headquarters of the Communist Party. 2003 D. Harker Tressell x. 165 He had ‘a very good political record’, was acceptable to King Street, and could ‘put projects in words’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1864
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