TO BE PUT ON THE BANKRUPTCY LIST, verb. phr. (old).—To be completely knocked out of time (GROSE).

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  1820.  P. EGAN, Jack Randall’s Diary, 44, ‘Randall’s Farewell to the Pugilistic Ring.’

        But Turner I’ve cleaned out; and Martin the Baker,
  I’d very near PUT ON THE BANKRUPTCY LIST.

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