rubber cheque
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rubber check
A check that draws upon a bank account which does not have enough funds to cover the amount. The check is called "rubber" because it "bounces" (i.e., it is not honored because of insufficient funds). Primarily heard in US. The man was finally arrested after years of writing rubber checks to businesses all around the country.
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rubber cheque
a cheque that is returned unpaid. informal humorous The expression plays on the idea of a cheque that ‘bounces’, or is unpaid because there are insufficient funds in the drawer's account to cover it.
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Forget all those jokes about
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Soon he was overdrawn at the bank and signing
rubber cheques. His accusers produced a slip of paper with his debts totalled and then subtracted fr om the $75,000 insurance payout.
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