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Robopup
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 Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:30 am Post subject: Rated PG question |
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Hello.
I was wondering what "your a**"
and "my a**" means.
Someone plz tell me clearly.
Thanks.
kei^_^;;
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bud
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Hi Kei,
my a** - I'd say that this is usually used to emphatically contradict what someone has just said, something that you don't like.
Abby: You should let that car merge in front of you.
Gabe: My a**, no one let me in!
your a** - This is probably used more to reject a challenge or insult.
Abby: You need to lose some weight.
Gabe: Your a**, you're no one to talk!
They're very common expressions and may be used for other purposes, too. These are what come to my mind, though. |
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Robopup
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| Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:07 pm Post subject: mucho gracias :) |
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Hello Bud,
Thank you so much for the info.
If someone says "my/your a** is finished!"Would a** be used as an emphasis on that person?
Am I wrong about this?
Many thanks!
kei
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bud
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Yes, that's correct, Kei! We often use my/your/his/her a** to mean I/you/he/she in an emphatic way. (My previous answer was for when the phrases are used as complete sentences.)
We also use "fanny," a synonym appropriate for little children, in the same way:
You'd better get your little fanny in that bathroom and wash your hands! (Usually this is used in playful way.) |
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Robopup
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| Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 4:18 pm Post subject: Many thanks :) |
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Again many thanks!
You don't know how rich my English
will become because someone helped me  Have a great day!
kei
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| My pleasure, Kei. Thank you. |
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LucentShade
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Hmm, a** is a widespread synecdoche that can refer to a whole person. Some more expressions:
"You saved my a**" = you saved me, you helped me
"Get your a** in here" = come in here right now
"Your a** is grass" = a rhyming way of saying, "you're finished," "I'm going to beat you up," "you're in trouble," "you're toast"
"My a** is on the line* = I'm in a dangerous position / I'm taking a risk / I'm gambling |
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Harmony
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| Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| LucentShade wrote: |
| Hmm, a** is a widespread synecdoche that can refer to a whole person. |
Hmm, a widespread synecdoche, eh? 
No fair Lucent! Now you're making us work.
[Harmony drags her dictionary out from under the mountain of tax documents on her desk . . .]
Hmm, synecdoche, s - y - n - e . . .
OK here it is:
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| A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword). |
So for an a** to be a widespread synecdoche does the a** have to be wide? Or do small a**es qualify for synecdoche status too?  |
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Robopup
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| Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:35 pm Post subject: Thank you very much Lucent :-) |
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Hello.
Again thank you very much for the assist.I can be the life of the party:-)Cheers!
kei
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Robopup
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| Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:39 pm Post subject: Thank you very much Harmony:-) |
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Thank you very much for looking that word up.You saved me the trouble^O^
I can use this new word for a future Scrabble game >
kei
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