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show someone one's etchings

show someone one's etchings verb: 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).

Verb

show someone one's etchings (third-person singular simple present shows someone one's etchings, present participle showing someone one's etchings, simple past showed someone one's etchings, past participle shown someone one's etchings)

  1. (idiomatic) 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)
    • Let me show you my etchings.
    • “Never wanted to show off my etchings before. I only show my etchings to redheads,” he said with a grin. ”Now that you've come, I can't wait to show them to you.[…]”1988, Ruth Seamands, Pearls in the Rain, Bristol Books, →ISBN, page 47
    Synonyms:
    discuss Uganda, graft the forked tree, someone's etchings

Synonyms of show someone one's etchings

Forms of show someone one's etchings

third-person singular presentshows someone one's etchings
present participleshowing someone one's etchings
pastshowed someone one's etchings
past participleshown someone one's etchings

Questions about show someone one's etchings

What does show someone one's etchings mean?
Show someone one's etchings means 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).
What part of speech is show someone one's etchings?
Show someone one's etchings is a verb.
What is the past tense of show someone one's etchings?
The past tense of show someone one's etchings is showed someone one's etchings.

Words near show someone one's etchings in the dictionary

  1. show shapes
  2. show skin
  3. show some skin
  4. show someone a good time
  5. show someone a thing or two
  6. show someone one's etchings
  7. show someone the door
  8. show song
  9. show songs
  10. show stone
  11. show stones

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