"strike me lucky!" Definition

Definitions for the word "strike me lucky!" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. slang
an expression used by the lower orders when making a bargain, derived from the old custom of striking hands together, leaving in that of the seller a LUCK PENNY as an earnest that the bargain is concluded. In Ireland, at cattle markets, &c., a penny, or other small coin, is always given by the buyer to the seller to ratify the bargain.—_Hudibras._ Anciently this was called a “God’s penny.” “With that he cast him a God’s penny.”—_Heir of Linne._ The origin of the phrase being lost sight of, like that of many others, it is often used as a modification of “Strike me blind!” and is now and again corrupted into “Strike me silly!” A foolish variation of this is “Strike me up a gum-tree!”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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