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screw you

Idioms  

  1. Go to hell, as in You won't help after all? Well, screw you! A euphemism for the still ruder fuck you, this slangy term dates from the mid-1900s.

Example Sentences

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Once you give a firm that power, you are disarming everyone else and giving them this pluripotent doomsday device that they can use to take away value and shift things around and screw you over.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2025

He isn’t doing this to screw you over.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2022

“Imagine having a bad umpire who was out to screw you, as well. Now that was a problem.”

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2019

He left Trump with this message: “The media isn’t trying to screw you, because, to borrow a phrase, you’re not their type.”

From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2019

“Just put that behind you. If you worry about it, it’s gonna screw you up. It’s history.”

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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