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Idioms and Phrases
A vulgar exclamation of contempt, as in So you think you can beat me? Well, up yours! This expression, a shortening of the even more vulgar stick it up your ass , is sometimes accompanied by an obscene gesture (see give the finger ). [ Vulgar slang ; mid-1900s]Example Sentences
One London tabloid called on readers to show their hostility to “the French fool” by assembling and shouting in unison: “Up Yours Delors.”
The Sun waded into the debate with a two-fingered salute on its front page, alongside a now legendary headline: Up Yours, Delors!
A headline by British tabloid The Sun once famously shouted: "Up Yours, Delors."
"Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought," he wrote in the Guardian.
Critics deplored headlines like “Up yours, Delors,” directed at then-European Commission President Jacques Delors, and “Gotcha!” — the Sun’s reaction when a British submarine sank the Argentine cruiser Belgrano, killing more than 300 sailors, during the 1982 Falklands War.
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