Brewer's: 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.

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