Brewer's: Kent Street Ejectment

Taking away the street-door; a method devised by the landlords of Kent Street, Southwark, when their tenants were more than a fortnight in arrears.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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