TO HAVE A HEARTY CHOKE and CAPER SAUCE FOR BREAKFAST, verb. phr. (old).—To be hanged. Cf., VEGETABLE BREAKFAST, and for synonyms, see LADDER.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.

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  1834.  W. H. AINSWORTH, Rookwood, ‘Jerry Juniper’s Chaunt.’

        Who cut his last fling with great applause,
To the tune of a ‘HEARTY CHOKE WITH CAPER SAUCE.’

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  1893.  DANVERS, The Grantham Mystery, ch. xiii. I am not particularly anxious to run the risk of being compelled to have a HEARTY-CHOKE FOR BREAKFAST one fine morning.

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