Etymology
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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."
go it, ye cripples
- (obsolete, slang) Synonym of go it (“keep it up; term of encouragement”)
Alternative forms
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References
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- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary