/ · 1894 Brewer’s · P · Put up the Shutters (To)
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To announce oneself a bankrupt.
Do you think I am going to put up the shutters if we can manage to keep going?
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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