To cut one’s lucky. To decamp or make off quickly: I must cut my stick. As luck means chance, the phrase may signify, “I must give up my chance and be off. (See Cut …)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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