my foot! excl.
an excl. used to imply one’s contemptuous rejection of the previous speaker’s assertion; sometimes as your foot!
Sporting Times 1 Apr. 11/2: Said No. 2: ‘My hat! this is a really nice girl.’ Said No. 1: ‘She is a nice girl, old chap, but that was my foot.’. | ||
Harvester 515: ‘Grandmother your foot!’ cried the old woman. | ||
Clicking of Cuthbert 135: Pleasant morning ramble my number nine foot! | ||
Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 72: Liability my foot... | ||
Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 32: ‘My foot!’ said Harry contemptuously. | ‘Pat Hobby’s Christmas Wish’ in||
Bulldog Drummond Stands Fast 70: ‘Her father, my foot!’ grinned Drummond. | ||
(con. 1930s) Harlem Glory (1990) 24: Baron, my foot! | ||
Darling Buds of May (1985) 34: Pason’s Poke, my foot. Sharp as a packet o’ pins. | ||
Dandy 30 Nov. n.p.: Ghost my foot! | ||
Burn 60: ‘Secret me fat foot,’ McAllister says. | ||
Rhyme Stew (1990) 17: A mouse my foot! It was a HAND! | ||
Powder 70: The Tweets outselling Oasis, my foot! | ||
Chutney Power and Stories 120: ‘But Madam, it surely slipped from my hand’. [...] ‘Slipped my foot, my big foot!’. |