have it away (with) v.1
to steal an object.
![]() | Crust on its Uppers 34: There they are in court [...] down to having it away with someone’s spoons. | |
![]() | Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 103: It don’t make no odds to me if I plug yuh where yuh stand and ’ave it away wiv the lolly. | |
![]() | DSUE (8th edn) 537: since ca. 1925. | |
![]() | Lowspeak 71: Have it away – to successfully complete a crime. | |
![]() | It Was An Accident 71: All you got to avoid is some gangster likes his new Merc, didn’t reckon you ought to have it away. |