Possible idiom? "out the door at the word Hamlet"

Factual Questions
1

I got an email the other day that included the line “out the door at the word Hamlet”.

From context, I gather that it’s similar to ‘at the drop of a hat’ or ‘at the word go’, meaning a readiness to start with little notice or preparation needed. However, a Google search didn’t produce any hits for such an idiom, so I’m wondering if anyone else has heard such a thing, or knows what the origin of it is - something theater related? Like repertory companies being ready to put on a show at a moment’s notice, or something?

2

If it were “Out the door at the word Macbeth” I could understand it to reference the superstition that you don’t mention “the Scottish play” in the theater, so superstitious actors would immediately leave. But there is no such superstition about Hmalet that I know of.

3

Maybe someone’s auto-incorrect put something weird in there.

4

Can you ask the person who sent the email? I can think of one or two things that it might mean, but I’ve never heard it either, and now that you have brought it into my awareness, I want to know.

5

I could maybe see it’s a mis-hearing of “at the drop of a hat.”

6

Or could it be someone who’s just allergic to Shakespeare?

7

Sounds like a transmogrified line from the play.

8

Well - the mystery is solved, and it turns out not to be an idiom after all, just an errant capitalization.

It was referring to an earlier email that gave a scavenger hunt clue, saying that a particular county park was ‘named after a local hamlet’. Someone else got that clue right away and was the first to find the item: he was ‘out the door at the word hamlet’.

Oh well, the ambiguity was fun while it lasted.

9

What was ‘idiom’ that came through here a while back, something about throwing something into a pit? I’m drawing a blank.

10

Let’s go down to the quarry and throw things in there?

11

That’s the one.