English Explanatory Dictionary

cheese it

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. An imperative used as a warning to stop, hide, or flee

Pronunciation

en-au-cheese it.ogg

Word forms

cheese it

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

punch it desist heads up
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