cheese it, the cops
cheese it
slang Run; hide; get out of here; stop what you're doing. Used as an urgent imperative. Cheese it, someone called the cops!
See also: cheese
cheese it, the cops
slang 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, cop
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
cheese it
Stop, 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: cheese
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Cheese it !
verbSee Cheese it the cops!
See also: cheese
Cheese 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
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
cheese it
Slang1. To look out. Often used in the imperative.
2. To get away fast; get going. Often used in the imperative.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
cheese 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
Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price
- cheese it
- Cheese it the cops!
- cheese it-the cops!
- run over to
- run over to (someone or something)
- have (one) on the run
- have someone on the run
- run a make on someone
- run about
- got to run