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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Example Sentences

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 have made up my mind to let you make up yours, without urging you further upon the subject; but I must reply to one thing.

From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny

We must leave this house immediately; come up with me to your rooms, and help me to pack up yours and your sisters' clothes, for we must go to my cottage this night.

From The Children of the New Forest by Marryat, Frederick