go it, ye cripples

English

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."

Phrase

go it, ye cripples

  1. (obsolete, slang) Synonym of go it (“keep it up; term of encouragement”).

Alternative forms

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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