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up yours

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  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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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

You ask Molly to give up her peoples but you don't want to give up yours.

From The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert by Honoré Morrow

But I have made up my mind to this, and you must make up yours to the same.

From The Living Link by James De Mille

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