Idiom
eat my shorts
Meaning
An irreverent rebuke or dismissal.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“If you think I am doing your chores, you can eat my shorts.”
“When the bully demanded my lunch money, I told him to eat my shorts and walked away.”
“The defiant teenager looked at the strict headmaster and told him to eat my shorts before storming out of the office.”
Examples
simple
“If you think I am doing your chores, you can eat my shorts.”
contextual
“When the bully demanded my lunch money, I told him to eat my shorts and walked away.”
complex
“The defiant teenager looked at the strict headmaster and told him to eat my shorts before storming out of the office.”
Origin
Popularised by the television series The Simpsons in 1989, where the phrase served as a catchphrase for the character Bart Simpson.
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