Timeline for Selling off the china
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| Nov 24, 2020 at 9:44 | vote | accept | Koenig Lear | ||
| Nov 24, 2020 at 0:19 | answer | added | chasly - supports Monica | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 0:13 | comment | added | BoldBen | The only phrase of this nature that is in common use is "selling off the family silver" but that has rather different connotations. The idea conveyed by "selling off the family silver" is that the person doing that is being profligate and reckless and funding excess by disposing of valuable assets. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 23:36 | comment | added | MarielS | I'd say you've nailed it (you're right). That is indeed what it means and the image it invokes. How commonly it would be used as a "saying" though, I can't say. | |
| Nov 23, 2020 at 23:09 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 23, 2020 at 23:08 | history | asked | Koenig Lear | CC BY-SA 4.0 |