Brewer's: Jeronimo

The chief character in the Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd. On finding his application to the king ill-timed, he says to himself, “Go by, Jeronimo,” which tickled the fancy of the audience so that it became for a time the current street jest.

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