TO GIVE ONE SCISSORS, verb. phr. (common).—To pay out; to CUT UP (q.v.). Also SCISSORS! = an exclamation of disgust or impatience.
1843. C. SELBY, Antony and Cleopatra Married & Settled. Oh, SCISSORS; insinuate that it takes nine of us to make a man!
1847. ROBB, Streaks of Squatter Life, 64. I grabbed his slick har, and may be I didn’t GIN HIM SCISSORS.
1893. MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, 33, ‘On the Road.’ Oh, SCISSORS! jest didn’t we give ’em tantivy!
