单词 | my fanny |
释义 | > as lemmasmy fanny 4. colloquial. my fanny: expressing dismissive or incredulous contradiction, esp. of another person's opinion. Usually following a full or partial statement of what is being dismissed. Cf. my arse! at arse n. and int. Phrases 4a, my foot! at foot n. and int. Phrases 9b, my eye at eye n.1 Phrases 4n(b). See also my Aunt Fanny! at Aunt Fanny n. 1.It is sometimes difficult to tell whether the sense of fanny in this phrase is 1a or 3. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [phrase] > nothing, no one, not any > not at all na whonc1275 at all1476 no point1542 like hell1776 not‥a speck1843 not‥a hang1861 my fanny1935 1935–6 T. Rattigan Gone Away (typescript, Victoria & Albert Mus.) ii. i. f. 23 That's it. Progress. Kit. Progress, my fanny. 1960 D. Lessing In Pursuit of Eng. (1961) iv. 126 There she was,..groaning and carrying on, and saying: ‘I'm going to die.’ Die, my fanny. She'd the energy for a fifty-year-old, though she was seventy-nine. 2015 ‘E. James’ High Country Hideout vii. 81 She snorted softly. ‘Sexy, my fanny.’ < as lemmas |
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