Idiom
what did your last slave die of
Meaning
Used to indicate that someone is being unreasonably bossy and demanding.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Stop ordering me around; what did your last slave die of?”
“My manager keeps demanding I finish this project by tonight, so I asked her, what did your last slave die of?”
“When the supervisor insisted that I work through the weekend without extra pay, I retorted, what did your last slave die of?”
Examples
simple
“Stop ordering me around; what did your last slave die of?”
contextual
“My manager keeps demanding I finish this project by tonight, so I asked her, what did your last slave die of?”
complex
“When the supervisor insisted that I work through the weekend without extra pay, I retorted, what did your last slave die of?”
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