rubber check

[rubber check] {n.}, {informal} A check written without enough money in the bank to make it good.

* /Bill got into trouble when he paid his bills with rubber checks./

* /By the time we knew he had paid us with a rubber check, the man had left the state./

* /The rubber check bounced./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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