# show someone one's etchings

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/show-someone-ones-etchings
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

A clichéd innuendo used to offer to bring someone to a private location in order to have sex, to show a place where people can engage in sexual intercourse (alternatively replacing "someone" with a phrase starting with to)

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