Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Bought and Sold

or Bought, sold, and done for. Ruined, done for, outwitted.

Jocky of Norfolk, be not too bold,
For Diccon, thy master, is bought and sold.

Shakespeare: Richard III., act v. 3.

“It would make a man mad as a buck to be so bought and sold.” —Comedy of Errors, iii. 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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