P1. †to break up shop: to become bankrupt. Obsolete. rare.
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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
1712 J. ArbuthnotJohn Bull in his Senses iv. 21 And to have these Usurers transact my Debts at Coffee-Houses and Ale Houses, as if I were going to break-up Shop.