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screw you
Idioms and Phrases
Go to hell, as in You won't help after all? Well, screw you! A euphemism for the still ruder fuck you , this slangy term dates from the mid-1900s.Example Sentences
âYou trust in that process that the editors that you're working with are not going to screw you over, that they are going to do their best to be faithful to the key arguments of your piece,â he told Salon.
Itâs like, âWell, screw you. Iâm coming back.â
âAnd you know what? Now weâre going to screw you â while eating some other brandâs cereal.â
A woman holds her head high when asked by Iran's once-feared morality police to put a hijab on, and tells them: "Screw you!"
âYeah, screw you. Weâre going to survive this.â
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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