| 释义 |
cheese it, the cops cheese itslang Run; hide; get out of here; stop what you're doing. Used as an urgent imperative. Cheese it, someone called the cops!See also: cheesecheese it, the copsslang Run or get out of here because the police are coming. Used as an urgent imperative. Cheese it, the cops! I'm not getting caught!See also: cheese, copcheese itStop, look out, as in Cheese it! Here come the cops! This term, generally stated as an imperative, may have been a replacement for the earlier "Stop at once." Eric Partridge speculated that it may have been a corruption of Cease! but its true origin is not known. [Slang; mid-1800s] See also: cheeseCheese it ! verbSee Cheese it the cops!See also: cheeseCheese it (the cops)! exclam. Run away, the cops are coming! If you see the fuzz coming, you’re supposed to yell, “Cheese it, the cops!” But I don’t know why. Then they know we’re doing something wrong. See also: cheese cheese it Slang 1. To look out. Often used in the imperative.2. To get away fast; get going. Often used in the imperative.See also: cheesecheese it-the cops!A warning that the police were coming. “Cheese” might be a variant of “cease.” It might also come from the cheese course coming at the end of dinner; in the sense that with nothing else ahead, it's time to leave. In either event, “cheese it—the cops!” was a staple of mid-20th-century crime novels and films, as well as such movies as The Dead End Kids and The Bowery Boys.See also: cheese |