cheese it

1. Stop, look out, as in Cheese it! Here come the cops! This term, generally stated as an imperative, may have been a replacement for the earlier “Stop at once.” Eric Partridge speculated that it may have been a corruption of Cease! but its true origin is not known. [Slang; mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

“This can come from milk, yogurt, or cheese. It can also come from lactose-free milk and fortified soy milk or yogurt.”

From Salon

“However you prepare our classic Mac & Cheese, it’s sure to satisfy the kids you know — including the kid in you!”

From Salon

For so many who spent years if not decades warning that constitutional democracy was in peril, it turns out schadenfreude has the shelf life of a tub of cottage cheese: It was too soon to panic until it was too late, and nobody wants to hear from the folks who spent years issuing warnings, because WTF can we do about it now?

From Slate

The famous blue cheese it gave its name to is known throughout the world, but despite years of local protests, the Cambridgeshire village of Stilton is still not allowed to produce it.

From BBC

At the top of Morton's Solicitors' "10 Craziest Convictions", published earlier this year, is an unexpected case involving cheese – it lists a dairy farm that became an unlikely target in 2013.

From BBC