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

Now, Tomkins, fill up yours; and you, Mr Smith.

From The Three Cutters by Frederick Marryat

Linden," he said, "I believe in you! and if ever I enter upon an orbit of any sort, I'll take up yours.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Susan Warner