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one's (used to indicate that one belonging to oneself or to any person): The consulate is your best source of information. As you go down the hill, the library is on your left.
(used informally to indicate all members of a group, occupation, etc., or things of a particular type): Take your factory worker, for instance. Your power brakes don't need that much servicing.
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These pathetic folks need to accept that “jazz has replaced classical music as the dreaded incarnation of eat-your-broccoli art.”
Dessert is a slice of melt-in-your-mouth treacle tart with a dollop of perfectly tart clotted cream.
He was like my old man with that angry, in-your-face rhetoric.
This Man Is The Future of Westboro Baptist Church | Caitlin Dickson | March 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe continues that "the gays I know are not the flamboyant shove-it-in-your face type of people."
Most of the posts—featuring kind, thoughtful, restores-your-faith-in-humanity type of statements—align with the lofty statement.
Ashton Kutcher Is Investing in the Anonymous Confessional App Secret | Abby Haglage | March 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Stretch-your-necks, wags and grind hunters, supplied Jerry, now sufficiently aroused to join in the conversation.
Marjorie Dean College Freshman | Pauline LesterHe had done rough work in Central Asia, and had seen rather more help-your-self fighting than most men of his years.
Soldier Stories | Rudyard KiplingSat Bhai has many members, and perhaps before they jolly-well-cut-your-throat they may give you just a chance for life.
Kim | Rudyard KiplingOpposite is a little, hold-your-own school-mistressy young person in pince-nez.
Sea and Sardinia | D. H. LawrenceSuch was the difference between the costume and arms of Master Rend-your-Soul and that of his servant.
A Romance of the West Indies | Eugne Sue
British Dictionary definitions for your
/ (jɔː, jʊə, unstressed jə) /
of, belonging to, or associated with you: your nose; your house; your first taste of freedom
belonging to or associated with an unspecified person or people in general: the path is on your left heading north; this lotion is for your head only
informal used to indicate all things or people of a certain type: your part-time worker is a problem
your actual British informal (intensifier): here is your actual automatic tin-opener
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