go it, ye cripples
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Etymology[edit]
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."
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- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary