Aunt Fanny n.
used to express negation or disbelief, e.g. tell that to my Aunt Fanny.
Show Girl 193: He [...] says it doesn't mean anything—she's just interested in the show business. You can tell that to my Aunt Fanny I says to him [...] I’m getting all fed up. | ||
Awake and Sing! II i: bessie: Look, he’s ashamed. moe: So’s your Aunt Fanny. bessie: (naively) Who’s got an Aunt Fanny? [...] morty: It’s a joke! | ||
New Writing 72: ‘Bob’s yer uncle,’ shouted another girl, very suddenly. They all shrieked loud with laughter. ‘’Ow’s yer Aunt Fanny?’ called back Frankie. | ‘Street Corner’ in||
(ref. to 1890s) | Connie Mack 37: Connie would have replied in the vernacular of that day: ‘Tell that to my Aunt Fanny’.||
Nomad 181: ‘Up your Aunt Fanny.’ ‘Where’s the brew?’ ‘By your mucking foot’. | ||
Fowlers End (2001) 196: Stone my Aunt Fanny, but if I ’ad a trumpet I’d ’ave a blow at it! |
In exclamations
a mild negating excl., e.g. Agree? My Aunt Fanny.
Darling Buds of May (1985) 77: ‘Strick letter my aunt Fanny,’ Pop said. | ||
Burnt Ones 129: ‘Was it birdseed?’ ‘Was it my Aunt Fanny!’. | ||
Smiley’s People 49: Wise, my Aunt Fanny. Bunch of left-wing flannel merchants. |