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单词 my arse!
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my arse!
a. slang (chiefly British and Irish English). my arse!: expressing dismissive or incredulous contradiction, esp. as a scornful rejection of another's stated opinions; ‘nonsense!’, ‘like hell!’, ‘you must be joking!’. Usually following a full or partial restatement of what is being dismissed or rejected. Cf. my ass at ass n.2 Phrases 1c, my foot! at foot n. and int. Phrases 9b, my eye at eye n.1 Phrases 4n(b).In quots. 1602 and 1710 it is explicitly asserted that the speaker's buttocks are equal value or quality to the matter under discussion.
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1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iv. vii. sig. I2 Crisp. They say, he's valiant. Tvcca. Valiant? so is mine Arse. View more context for this quotation
1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 3 Nov. (2013) 56 They..promise me letters to the two archbishops here; but mine a— for it all.]
1734 ‘C. Johnson’ Gen. Hist. Lives Highwaymen 62/2 Says Nehemiah, Quæso, Domine, dare mihi aliquid [i.e. ‘I beg you, master, to give me something’]: Quæso, quæso, my Arse, answer'd the Footman.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. v. 227 ‘You frighten the young Lady so, that you deprive her of all Power of Utterance.’ ‘Power of mine A—,’ answered the Squire.
1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine vi. 236 ‘Got icebreakers on them.’ ‘Icebreakers my arse.’
1999 C. Aherne et al. Royle Family Scripts: Ser. 2 (2000) Episode 7. 160 Barbara. Let's all have a snowball! Don't snowballs make your feel Christmassy, ey? Jim. Snowballs my arse.
2015 A. Sparrow Harvesters x. 103 It's a load of old horseshit anyway, crashed alien spaceships my arse!
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