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I got mine

I got mine phrase: used to convey that one has achieved success and that others should be able to as well regardless of ability, background, or circumstances.

Phrase

I got mine

  1. (attributive, often) Used to convey that one has achieved success and that others should be able to as well regardless of ability, background, or circumstances.
    • Although the Wofford quote ["We don't need affirmative action — we're already here"] may have been a well-intended attempt to demonstrate that gay people can make it, it tends to reflect an "I got mine, too bad about you" sentiment reminiscent of Clarence Thomas.1991 December 15, Kathyrin E. Diaz, “Telling Fortune”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 22, page 7
    • Strutting with pride over his nouveau-riche status, George [Jefferson of The Jeffersons] embodied and employed the trickle-down economic values of Reagan-era America, as well as an "I got mine," up-by-your-bootstraps ideology that was simultaneously mocked and celebrated in this version of a social...2008, Bambi Higgins, “The Black Situation Comedy”, in Todd Boyd, editor, African Americans and Popular Culture, page 227

Examples of I got mine in a sentence

  • BMWs have excellent road manners, depreciate slowly, and have an “I got mine!” cachet that buyers find hard to resist.2010, Phil Edmonston, Lemon-Aid New Cars and Trucks 2010, page 341:
  • It reminds me more of an “I got mine” philosophy than of anything else.2014, Roger Lee Ray, Progressive Faith and Practice: Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By, unnumbered page:

Words formed from I got mine

Questions about I got mine

What does I got mine mean?
I got mine means used to convey that one has achieved success and that others should be able to as well regardless of ability, background, or circumstances.
How do you use I got mine in a sentence?
BMWs have excellent road manners, depreciate slowly, and have an “I got mine!” cachet that buyers find hard to resist.
What part of speech is I got mine?
I got mine is a phrase.

Words near I got mine in the dictionary

  1. I fear
  2. I feel you
  3. I formation
  4. I formations
  5. I fuck you not
  6. I got mine
  7. I gotta love you and leave you
  8. I hardly even know her
  9. I hardly know 'er
  10. I hardly know her
  11. I hate you

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