Definitions
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- pronoun Something whose name one does not want to mention, but which is known to the person to whom one is speaking.
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Examples
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You know that an ounce of you-know-what is worth a pound of cure.
Diana Kirschner: Is There Such A Thing As 'Divorce Insurance'? Diana Kirschner 2011
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Why Mr. Rees, if I didn't know better, I'd think you were deliberately stirring the you-know-what...
Wales v England: five things we learned from Six Nations 2011 opener 2011
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He must have known it was going to come back and bite him in the you-know-what.
Trippi: GOP trying to turn Obama into another Jimmy Carter 2009
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You know that an ounce of you-know-what is worth a pound of cure.
Diana Kirschner: Is There Such A Thing As 'Divorce Insurance'? Diana Kirschner 2011
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Since the Streets Of Gotham and Gotham City Sirens books both feature an "evil" Bruce Wayne, and both are written by Paul Dini, who made Tommy "Hush" Elliot into an exact (albeit evil) duplicate of Bruce back in Detective, it doesn't take a you-know-what to figure out who's posing as the lost-in-time billionaire.
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You gotta hand it to the Repugnants ... they have more you-know-what than democrats!
Legislators dismiss most ethics charges against Sanford 2009
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But when you're the former governor of California who apparently had a lovechild, those catchphrases might be a pain in the Austrian you-know-what.
Judy Kurtz: This Week's Shining and Falling Stars: Jennifer Aniston and Arnold Schwarzenegger Judy Kurtz 2011
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Coming out of college as a second-round draft choice, Viola thought he was "king you-know-what" and often refused help, even when his earned run average was above 5.00 in his first two seasons.
Clout for the Cyclones Amara Grautski 2011
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Coming out of college as a second-round draft choice, Viola thought he was "king you-know-what" and often refused help, even when his earned run average was above 5.00 in his first two seasons.
Clout for the Cyclones Amara Grautski 2011
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Later, when Earl started pestering me for you-know-what in bed, I said I didn't feel well enough because my stomach was upset from just eating movie food.
That's Unethical! Con Chapman 2011
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