Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Notice to quit
subs. phr. (old).—See quot.
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1823. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue [EGAN], s.v. NOTICE TO QUIT. A cant phrase. When a person is in danger of dying from bad health, it is said, he has received a NOTICE TO QUIT.
