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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

903.0. "On the QT?" by AYOV27::ISMITH (Off to Severance City) Mon Jul 29 1991 21:36

    Where does the saying "on the QT" come from, and what does it mean?
    
    
    Ian.
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903.1SHALOT::ANDERSONAs Seen on TVMon Jul 29 1991 22:104
	It means "on the quiet," and derives -- I assume -- simply from
	a shortened form of "quiet."

		-- Clif
903.2JIT081::DIAMONDOrder temporarily out of personal nameTue Jul 30 1991 03:182
    It designates someone who's waiting to get off the Boston subway.
    The opposite, of course, is to be on the TQ.
903.3FLARS -- Five-letter acronyms 'r' usSTAR::CANTORIM2BZ2PWed Jul 31 1991 04:567
The TQ?  That's good.  I've often stood there.

Even though I can't spare the time, I often stand in the PQ.

"Who are you folks waiting in line here?"  "O P Q R S."

Dave C.