on the Q.T.
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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 Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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 Raymond, Ernest
If the note is straight goods I've got to work on the Q.T.
From The Big-Town Round-Up by Raine, William MacLeod
"Putting on all they can on the Q.T.," was the response.
From Malcolm Sage, Detective by Jenkins, Herbert George
He's tired of skulking and wants me to sell that house his mother left him, strictly on the Q.T.
From The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove
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