Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Cut one’s cart
verbal phr. (vagrants’).—See quot.
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1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. I., p. 339. I’ve seen them doze and sleep against the door. They like to be there before anyone CUTS THEIR CART (exposes their tricks).
