cut and come again n.
1. plenty, abundance.
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Cut and come again, of Meat that cries come Eat me. | ||
Polite Conversation 54: col.: I vow, ’tis a noble Sirloyn. nev.: Ay; here’s Cut and come again. | ||
Proc. Old Bailey 24 Apr. 123/1: MARY Cut and Come-again [real name Mary White] spinster, was indicted for assaulting Elizabeth Turner widow, in a certain open place, in or near the King's highway called Leicester-fields. | ||
Real Life in London I 551: It is impossible to say of him, as of his sirloin of a wife (for she cannot be called a rib, or at all events a spare rib) that there is any thing like cut and come again. | ||
Bk of Sports 264: Never was ‘cutting and coming again’ performed in better style upon any occasion. | ||
Dict. Americanisms 105: cut and come again. An expression in vulgar language, implying that having cut as much as you pleased, you may come again; in other words, plenty; no lack; always a supply. — Todd. | ||
Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 28: cut and come again, plenty, if one cut does not suffice plenty remains to ‘come again’. | ||
, , | Sl. Dict. [as cit. 1859]. | |
Sl. Dict. |
2. the vagina.
Sl. and Its Analogues. |