cheese it

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短语
  1. An imperative used as a warning to stop, hide, or flee UK,dated,slang
    — Cheese it, the coves are fly; be silent, the people understand our discourse.

词源

Unknown, but lexicographer Eric Partridge speculated that it may be a corruption of cease. Originally thieves' cant.
In his Vocabulary of the Flash Language, author and former convict James Hardy Vaux (1782-?) defined cheese it as synonymous with stash it and stow it, all meaning to desist or leave off.
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