cheese it

Meaning

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

Synonyms

chuck it

come off it

run away

scat

knock it off

sling your hook

Translations

vingt-deux

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πάψε

δίνε του

κόφτο

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.