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Mar 22, 2004 ... Can you please tell me the origin of the expression "Cheese it. The cops!''? — S. O., Cleveland, Ohio. Dear S. O.: ...
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Cheese it! The cop’s a-comin!” ; Google Books; Cheese It-the Cops!; By Emanuel Henry Lavine ; Published by The Vanguard Press ; 1936 ; Google Books; The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech;
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[Q] From Dave Olander: Do you have any notion of the meaning and origin of Cheese it? It is from my childhood reading of comic books, and was always used in expressions like “Cheese it! The cops!” I can only guess it is intended to be a PC adaptation of Jesus, used as an expletive, but feel that is unlikely.
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What Our Readers Are Saying ... Qty Store Section ... 1 Local Warehouse Crime- Mobs and Organized Crime...
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Let it rain. ... Floor it, Darling. Your mother is gaining on us. ... It's the sound your house makes when it collapses two days after the closing.
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Making Vaguely Derogatory Comments to Corporate Sell-Out: 8:03 a.m. on April 1; 3800 block of 24th Street ... An employee of Andersen, Shredding, and Howe was walking down the 3800 block of 24th Street on his way to BART when he encountered a motley crowd of transients ... The pencil-pusher noted that as soon as he passed by,
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Herb claims to be an importer of fine cheeses, in fact routine checks at customs have always shown large shipments of cheese. Finally, you catch a break. You hear a rumor that Herb will be importing ten cheese casings over the weekend, and that one of the cheese casings has been hollowed out and filled with narcotics.
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The three main cop characters - Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey), Bud White (Russell Crowe), and Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) are all either solo cops or partners with other cops; their story arcs are separate until the end.
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Feb 28, 2006 ... I don't know who the doity rat is what run off with Guido Sr, AKA the Daveman, but youse better bring him back unharmed, see. Or there's gonna be trouble, see. It's Daveman we want to see, see. We want him back or there will be headless hobby horses around, see. ... Da Blog Mob Says dat.., logansackett,
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She reported that Bush actually “prefers his steak absent of the usual Cheez Whiz and provolone, accompanied only by cheese of the American variety,” information that she obtained from her own Deep Throat, one Caeser Barnabei, the owner of the well-known cheesesteak shop, Jim’s Place.
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