GO TO HALIFAX, verb. phr. (American).—Be off! GO TO HELL (q.v.). The full text is GO TO HELL, HULL, or HALIFAX. Cf., BATH, BLAZES, HULL, PUTNEY, etc.
1599. NASHE, Lenten Stuffe (GROSART, Works, 1883–84, v., p. 284). If frier Pendela and his fellowes, had any thing to say to him, in his admiral court of the sea, let them seek him, and neither in HULL, HELL, nor HALIFAX.
1875. Notes and Queries, 5 S., iv., p. 66. GO TO HALIFAX. This expression is sometimes used in the United States as a mild substitute for a direction to go to a place not to be named to ears polite.
