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screw you

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  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.


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“It’s absolutely important to build your AI infrastructure such that you can use different models from different providers, because if you get locked in, one provider change can screw you over,” Skoog told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Jun. 19, 2026

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

We have to make sure that it doesn’t screw you over for years, like so many people who are screwed over with $1.8 trillion in student loans.

From The Verge Feb. 1, 2022

“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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