Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. all over, finished, hopeless.

c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: All Holiday It is all Holiday at Peckham if the Child’s name is Punch or, it is all Holiday with him. A Saying Signifying ever [sic] thing is over with the person spoken of or alluded to.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn) n.p.: All Holiday. It is all holiday at Peckham, or it is all holiday with him; a saying signifying that it is all over with the business or person spoken of or alluded to.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1827		Dublin Wkly Reg. 22 Dec. 5/3: An acquaintance happening to use the proverbial phrase, ‘Oh! that is all holiday at Peckham,’ Goldsmith reddened, and asked if he meant to affront him.
1831		Essex Standard 24 Dec. 3/3: It now appeared all holiday at Peckham with the Nimrods, but after a trifling check the hunt again rallied.
1834		Chelmsford Chron. 31 Jan. 4/7: It was now all holiday at Peckham with many who were thrown out.
1878		Shoreditch Obs. 23 Mar. 3/1: When i was amkng beggars in St Mary-axe, he [...] took immediate umbrage if anyone used the phrase [...] ‘All a holiday in Peckham’.
1935		Western Dly Press 26 Jan. 9/6: Sleight-of-hand men are removed to Surrey, it being all holiday at Peckham.

2. a lack of food.

1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict. 198: ‘all holiday at Peckham,’ i.e., nothing to eat.

to sit down to eat.

1823

‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc.

to have nothing to eat.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 864/1: C.19.