Brewer's: Street and Walker

(Messrs.). “In the employ of Messrs. Street and Walker.” Said of a person out of employment. A gentleman without means, whose employment is walking about the streets.

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