Take Your TC
[tayk yawr tee-see]Community Definitions1
The ultimate disciplinary ultimatum barked by strict Anglo-Indian school headmasters, threatening immediate expulsion and issuance of a school Transfer Certificate.
“The headmaster caught the boys smoking cheroots behind the gym and roared, "Take your TC and get out!"”
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To connect someone through a phone or teleprinter switchboard; figuratively, to arrange an introduction or smooth a deal for a friend.
The inland railway colonies, junction settlements, and cantonment towns across central and northern India where tight-knit Anglo-Indian communities lived in company quarters.