do a Chloe
(v.)
[a nude portrait, entitled Chloe, rejected in 1883 by the Melbourne National Gallery and bought by a well-known local hotel; its popularity entered the national stock of idioms (cf. blind as Chloe under blind adj.1 ; drunk as Chloe adj.; ...Chloe under queer as... adj.)] (Aus.) to appear in the nude.
| | Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 317/1: late C.19–20. |