overdraw the badger
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[edit]overdraw the badger (third-person singular simple present overdraws the badger, present participle overdrawing the badger, simple past overdrew the badger, past participle overdrawn the badger)
- (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 […]