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Idioms and Phrases
A vulgar exclamation of contempt, as in So you think you can beat me? Well, up yours! This expression, a shortening of the even more vulgar stick it up your ass , is sometimes accompanied by an obscene gesture (see give the finger ). [ Vulgar slang ; mid-1900s]Example Sentences
One London tabloid called on readers to show their hostility to 鈥渢he French fool鈥 by assembling and shouting in unison: 鈥淯p Yours Delors.鈥
The Sun waded into the debate with a two-fingered salute on its front page, alongside a now legendary headline: Up Yours, Delors!
A headline by British tabloid The Sun once famously shouted: "Up Yours, Delors."
"Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought," he wrote in the Guardian.
Critics deplored headlines like 鈥淯p yours, Delors,鈥 directed at then-European Commission President Jacques Delors, and 鈥淕otcha!鈥 鈥 the Sun鈥檚 reaction when a British submarine sank the Argentine cruiser Belgrano, killing more than 300 sailors, during the 1982 Falklands War.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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