q.t., on the

Dave Wilton, Tuesday, February 27, 2007

On the q.t. is slang for quietly. q.t.. is an abbreviation for quiet. The phrase dates to at least 1884 when it appears in George Moore’s A Mummer’s Wife:

It will be possible to have one spree on the strict q.t.

(Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition)

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