Day 923: cut the ground

The scenario is this – you overspend on credit cards; and then a downturn in business cuts the ground from under you.

Artwork of the day
Savannah's Credit Card Protest
Benny Andrews
Date: 2004

Word of the day
cut the ground: to make someone or someone's ideas seem less good, especially by doing something before them or better than them

Quote of the day 
“There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye