To give or tip the office: to give a hint, a private information.
To take the office is to understand and profit by the hint given.
peg out
»The little beggar, at the end of the time mentioned, ‘pegged out’, to use Jimmy’s word». (Novel Notes 85. 25.)
Young Londoner of the working class.
= to die.
Vulgar synonyms: to hop off, to hop the twig, to kick the bucket.
phiz
»Underneath my sneering phiz I’m a blooming ’Arry.» (Novel Notes 204. 4.)