An exclamation of disapproval, about equal to “Draw it mild!” May Mary come up to my assistance, or to your discomfort!
“Marry come up, you saucy jade!”—Nineteenth Century, November, 1892, p. 797
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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.