cheese it

== English == === 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. === Pronunciation === === Phrase === cheese it (slang, dated, UK) An imperative used as a warning to stop, hide, or flee ==== Synonyms ==== punch it See Thesaurus:desist or Thesaurus:heads up ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === ice sheet, icesheet