Brewer's: Go it, Warwick!

A street cry during the Peninsular War, meaning, “Go it, ye cripples!” The Warwickshire militia, stationed at Hull, were more than ordinarily licentious and disorderly.

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