Idiom
bite me
Meaning
An expression of discontent or aggravation to another party.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“If you think I am doing your chores, bite me.”
“He told me to stop complaining about the project, so I just looked at him and said, bite me.”
“When the supervisor suggested that I work through the weekend to finish the report, I was so frustrated that I nearly told him to bite me.”
Examples
simple
“If you think I am doing your chores, bite me.”
contextual
“He told me to stop complaining about the project, so I just looked at him and said, bite me.”
complex
“When the supervisor suggested that I work through the weekend to finish the report, I was so frustrated that I nearly told him to bite me.”
Origin
Attested circa the 1980s in the United States, the phrase is likely a truncated form of the imperative bite my ass.
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