Without more ado; quickly. To cut one’s stick (q.v.) is to start off, and to cut one’s stick quickly is to start off immediately.
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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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