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that's your sort

  1. (slang, obsolete) That's it; that's the spirit; expressing approval or encouragement.
    • 1825, The Universal Songster, volume 1, page 260:
      He is a punster, give him a good licking. Talking of licking, he had better lick his own coat. That's your sort, cut away!
  2. (slang, obsolete) That's what kind of person or people you are.
    • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
      “Did any of you gentlemen want to have it out with me?” roared Silver, bending far forward from his position on the keg, with his pipe still glowing in his right hand. []
      Not a man stirred; not a man answered.
      That’s your sort, is it?” he added, returning his pipe to his mouth.

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  • (that's the spirit): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary