| 单词 | to go up king street |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go up King Street 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’. < as lemmas |
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