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To give a man the qui. When a man in the printing business has had notice to quit, his fellow-workmen say they “have given him the qui.” Here qui is the contraction of quie’tus (discharge). (See Quietus.)
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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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