what does on the QT mean
Origin. The slang term 'qt' is a shortened form of 'quiet'. There's no definitive source for the phrase ' on the q.t .', although it appears to be of 19th century British origin-not, as is often supposed, American.The longer phrase ' on the quiet ' is also not especially old, but is first recorded somewhat before ' on the qt ', in Otago: Goldfields & Resources, 1862:ll early citations of the phrase have it as 'on the strict q.t.'. The first recorded use of any version of the phrase in print that I can find documentary evidence for is by the Irish novelist George Moore, in A mummer's wife 1884: . It will be possible to have one spree on the strict q.t..