at rack and manger

Meaning: (idiomatic,archaic)plentifully and at another's expense.1742, Roger North,The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North[…]:At that Time, his Lordship took his Brother into his Family, and a Coach and Servants aſſign'd him out of his Equipages; and allat Rack and Manger, requiring only 200 l. a Year1843April,Thomas Carlyle,Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.:Charles C[offin] LittleandJames Brown, published1843,→OCLC,(please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):tearing out the bowels of St. Edmundsbury Convent (its larders namely and cellars) in the most ruinous way, by livingat rack and mangerthere.1859, Henry Morley,Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair:For we are not as other hypocrites, reprobates, and enemies of the state, but unto us thou hast given, from them thou hast taken, (blessed be thy name A Lard) they areat rack and manger, but we are at full meal

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