Bag cutter
In the Middle Ages, a bag cutter was used to describe a thief who cut off the money or alms bag and its contents attached to the belt . Today, in a figurative sense, a supplier of overpriced goods or services is also referred to as a bag cutter.
literature
- François de Calvi: Bag cutter, or newe warhaffte and actual description of the thief's histories . Frankfurt (Main), 1627. (1st volume as digitized version and full text in the German text archive , 2nd volume as digitalized version and full text in the German text archive )
- Moritz Gottlieb Saphir, Adolf Glassbrenner: Conversations lexicon for spirit, wit and humor . Volume I, Verlag Robert Schäfer 1852, p. 111 ( excerpt (Google) )
Web links
Wiktionary: Bag cutter - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
