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me too|miː tuː|
Phr. used alone or in various collocations (see quots.) of a person who, or a course of action which, adopts or acquiesces in the views, policies, etc., of someone else, often spec. those of one's political or other opponents. Freq. in a derogatory sense. orig. U.S. Also (with hyphen) as v. Hence me-ˈtooer, me-ˈtooism.
The colloq. ejaculation ‘Me too!’ signifying either that the speaker shares another person's view or experience or that the speaker wants the same share as another is getting, is the basis of the modern use.
1745Chesterfield Let. 13 Apr. (1932) II. 596 You must mark out Lord Granville by exterminating without quarter all who belong to him... If you take this resolution,..I empower you to make what use you please of my name as quitting with you; and I say as Will Seymour did, And me, too, sweet Jesus. 1851H. Melville Moby Dick I. xxxix. 275 Me too; where's your girls? 1873L. M. Alcott Work II. xi. 336 ‘Me too!’ cried little Ruth, and spread her chubby hand above the rest. 1921H. Williamson Beautiful Yrs. 128 ‘Where are you going?’ ‘Out.’ ‘Where to man?’ ‘Mr. Norman's.’.. ‘Norman's, you said? Right-o. Me, too!’ 1922Joyce Ulysses 459 Mrs. Mervyn Talboys... He implored me..to give him a most vicious horsewhipping. Mrs. Bellingham. Me too. Mrs. Yelverton Barry. Me too. 1924A. S. Neill Dominie's Five xii. 245 ‘I'm going to start to-day to learn to read.’ ‘Me too,’ said Donald. 1940H. L. Ickes Diary (1954) III. 312, I think that Willkie overlooked the best chance that he had by being content merely to ‘me too’ the President on his foreign policies and most of his domestic ones instead of striking out for himself in a bold and positive way. 1949Time 7 Feb. 10/3 We [sc. the Republicans] suffered because we tried to me-too the New Deal. 1949Sun (Baltimore) 14 Dec. 2/1 A recommendation that..the Republican party..divest itself of ‘me-tooism’ and go to the people with a program clearly and unmistakably in opposition to that now offered by our opponents. 1951Economist 10 Nov. 1109/1 He is against any ‘Me Too’ procedures, by which he means opposition acceptance of Administration policy at home or abroad. 1952Manch. Guardian Weekly 1 May 3 If General Eisenhower gets the Republican nomination he will have to risk the shame of me-tooing the Truman policy. 1958Spectator 1 Aug. 156/3 With the collapse of doctrinaire Socialism, and the adoption instead of a modified me-tooism, the range of controversy is being still further reduced. 1959Guardian 28 Dec. 6/1 Wendell Willkie, Governor Dewey, and General Eisenhower were all..‘me-tooers’—men whose chief appeal was to the vague, uncontroversial idealism of the non-partisan. 1960New Left Rev. Jan./Feb. 1/2 The champions of ‘me-too’ advance into..an ‘American’ future. 1960J. R. Ackerley We think the World of You 82 The almost mad stare with which her starting eyes pierced and searched my own for the answer to the only question in the world: ‘Me too?’ 1962Sunday Times 19 Aug. 18 ‘I'm a rugged individualist: I think for myself.’ ‘Me too.’ ‘Same here.’ 1965Economist 14 Aug. 607/2 The unions have few independent ideas to contribute to this design for a better America; they were ‘me tooers’ in Roosevelt's New Deal, Truman's Fair Deal and Kennedy's New Frontier. 1967Spectator 13 Oct. 419/2 The usefulness of ‘me-tooism’ in capturing the floating voter should not be underestimated. 1975G. V. Higgins City on Hill i. 18 Sam gets round to saying it on the floor a week later, and he's me-tooing.
Add:2. Comm. Used of a product (esp. a pharmaceutical) designed to emulate or rival another which has already been commercially successful. Also used of (the policies or techniques of) a company which develops or markets such a product. Usu. attrib.
1967Rep. Comm. Enquiry Relationship of Pharm. Industry with Nat. Health Service vi. 58 in Parl. Papers 1966–67 (Cmnd. 3410) XLV. 687 The imitation of existing products by the minimum of molecular manipulation required to circumvent patents has clearly proved profitable and the number of ‘me-too’ products that follow a new therapeutic fashion shows that it is widely used. 1974M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. iv. 72 All too often ‘me, too’ products are..promoted..on the basis of some dubious advantage over a competing product. 1976S9 (N.Y.) May/June 109 (Advt.), Radio Shack is not a ‘me too’ company with the same line carried by other shops in town. 1984Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Jan. 60/3 We will introduce new products..and not just take a ‘me too’ approach. 1993Canad. Business (Toronto, Ont.) Mar. 66/2 MDS hasn't won its reputation by playing it safe. ‘We don't do anything that's me-too,’ says Rygiel. ‘We're looking for major changes in the way things are done in health care.’ |