see you next Tuesday
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from the fact that see and you are homophones for C and U, while the first letters of next and Tuesday are N and T—thus altogether euphemistically signifying cunt.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]see you next Tuesday (plural see you next Tuesdays)
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) A cunt. (an objectionable person)
- 1980, David Guy Compton, The Unsleeping Eye, page 130:
- See you next Tuesday — it's a dirty insult. The initials make a dirty insult.
- 1997, Philip Thody, Don't Do It!: A Dictionary of the Forbidden, page 143:
- In the Guardian for 2 November 1989, Katie Campbell mentioned the disparaging See You Next Tuesday as a description for an unreliable young man (= cunt), and commented: 'Imagine a word so powerful that it has to be disguised, even when used as a term of abuse.'
- 2005, Kevin Weisman, Alias Assumed: Sex, Lies and SD-6, page 13:
- "See you next Tuesday," she said crisply, the camera holding her in close-up an extra beat for emphasis. You could almost hear the thud of knowing viewers falling off their chairs. In decades-old high-school vernacular, "See you next Tuesday" is code for the word that starts with the letters "c-u," means female genitalia and is used to insult a woman when "bitch" just isn't strong enough.
- 2006, Nick Hemsley, Clock, page 96:
- 'See you next Tuesday.' I learnt that at my convent school (My mother was Catholic). We would say it to the nuns who didn't have a clue what it meant...
- 2006, Jane May, Doggy Style, page 243:
- "That diva may be gorgeous, but she's a real, well, you know, a see-you-next-Tuesday." "A what?" asked Jen. I cocked my head. Curious, myself. "She's—pardon the expression—a cunt."
- 2024 February 1, Kaanita Iyer, Jamie Gangel, “Roberta Kaplan says Trump threw papers across table at Mar-a-Lago deposition because his legal team agreed to feed her lunch”, in CNN[1], archived from the original on February 02, 2024[2]:
- In a separate anecdote, Kaplan detailed the end of the deposition when she was set to leave, saying that Trump told her: “See you next Tuesday” – a phrase that is often used as a derogatory euphemism directed at women.
“We come in the room and I say, ‘I’m done asking questions’ and immediately I hear from the other side, ‘Off the record. Off the record. Off the record.’ So they must have planned it. And he looks at me from across the table and he says, ‘See you next Tuesday,’” she recounted.