Brewer's: Lucky

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...)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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