Kaffir Circus

English

Proper noun

the Kaffir Circus

1. (finance, slang, historical) Traders in South African mining shares.
   • 1897, The Review of Reviews, volume 16, page 19:

     He became the central figure in a nation of frenzied speculators who made the so-called “Kaffir Circus” the wildest financial orgie in the history of the world.