English Explanatory Dictionary

go it, ye cripples

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. Synonym of go it (“keep it up; term of encouragement”).

Word forms

go it, ye cripples go it, you cripples

Etymology

Said to have been a facetious rendering of the last line of Virgil's Eclogues: "Ite domum saturæ, venit Hesperus, ite capellæ"; or, "Go it, ye cripples, crutches are cheap."

Synonyms

go it
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