up yours

Idioms  

1. 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]

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up yours

Your opponent, meanwhile, is sending armies back at you to try to blow up yours.

From The Verge ● Feb. 11, 2021

"If my dad wants to give someone the up yours all I can say is olé, olé and olé," added his daughter.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2013

Photograph: PA Robert Hiscox, outgoing chairman of insurer Hiscox, gave an elegant "up yours" to corporate governance purists as he named an insider, chief underwriting officer Robert Childs, as his successor.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2012

I will take the babies down to supper, and send you up yours.

From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by Fleming, May Agnes

Dear mamma used to say that everybody had to have some responsibility or other; why not begin to take up yours now?

From We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Yechton, Barbara, [pseud.]