单词 | your grandmother! |
释义 | > as lemmasyour (also my) grandmother! P2. Originally U.S. your (also my) grandmother!: said in response to something with which one disagrees. Cf. granny n. Phrases 2. Now rare. ΚΠ 1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Sandwich Islands (1937) 23 ‘But, Mr. Brown, these are the mere—’ ‘Mere—your grandmother! they ain't the mere anything!’ 1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux II. xiii. 111 ‘Did you see her?’ said Ned... ‘See your grandmother.’ 1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married in Doctor's Dilemma 268 Lesbia. I hate..sentimental people. Mrs. George. Oh, sentimental your grandmother! 1934 E. Waugh Handful of Dust ii. 22 ‘I think she [sc. a horse] put in a short step.’ ‘Short step my grandmother.’ < as lemmas |
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