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.
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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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