sub-cheese n.
(mainly Anglo-Ind.) everything, the lot, all there is.
![]() | Delhi Sketch Bk 1 Oct. 114/2: And on the table was a skinny fowl, / The ‘sub cheez hye sahib’' of the grinning cook. | |
![]() | Journal 4 May (1953) 132: Then came the long and stumbling descent until the last village, where were all the coolies, and sub-cheese (everything) . | |
![]() | Day’s Work 181: Settled the whole sub-chiz [outfit] in three hours – servants, horses, and all. | ‘William the Conqueror Pt 1’ in|
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![]() | Soldier Erect 251: Of course we were lugging our ammo, machine-guns, mortars, and the whole subcheeze with us. | |
![]() | (con. WWII) | Quartered Safe Out Here 187: The whole bloody sub-cheese, the lot.