I’LL SEE YOU FURTHER FIRST, phr. (colloquial).—A denial. I’LL SOONER DIE FIRST (q.v.).
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, i., p. 29. I gave a country lad 2d. to mind him (the donkey) in a green lane there. I wanted my own boy to do so, but he said, I’LL SEE YOU FURTHER FIRST. A London boy hates being by himself in a lone country part. He’s afraid of being burked.
