overdraw the badger

English

Verb

overdraw the badger

  1. (slang, obsolete, rare) To overdraw one's bank account.
    • 1852, John Swaby, Physiology of the Opera (page 74)
      […] we remember once hearing a fast man suggest that they were evidently "nobs who had overdrawn the badger by driving fast cattle, and going it high" — the exact signification of which words we did not understand […]
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