on the Q.T.

Idioms  

1. Secretly, as in They told her on the Q.T. that she was being promoted. This slangy term, in which Q.T. is an abbreviation for “quiet,” was first recorded in 1884.

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on the Q.T.

I'll admit it was all right at first to run the thing on the Q.T., but that's pretty well busted up by now.

From The Zeppelin's Passenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Will you be so kind as to impress him with the fact that this expedition is on the Q.T.?

From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath

"Putting on all they can on the Q.T.," was the response.

From Malcolm Sage, Detective by Herbert George Jenkins

Now we aren't bullies, and perhaps, had you comforted your friend on the Q.T., and been copped doing so, we'd have let you off.

From Tell England A Study in a Generation by Ernest Raymond

If the note is straight goods I've got to work on the Q.T.

From The Big-Town Round-Up by William MacLeod Raine

Related Words

• buried
• clandestine
• concealed
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