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English
Etymology
Said to be so called by a Lord Chief Justice, from their being so frequently used on Sunday jaunts by extravagant shopkeepers and tradesmen.
Pronunciation
Noun
bankrupt cart (plural bankrupt carts)
- (obsolete, idiomatic) A one-horse chaise.
1813, Harriet Corp, Cottage Sketches; Or, Active Retirement:" No, no, I was too prudent when I was young to risk the expenses of a bankrupt cart, and now I am old I am too wise to attempt the difficult art of driving one."
References
Grose [et al.] (1811) “Bankrupt cart”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. , London: C. Chappell, , →OCLC.