BE "Your ass!" = WE "Up yours!" < "[Fxck you] Up your ass!"?

[Wilson Gray]

A foot note from an interesting paper by Larry:

"1
I ignore here the related intransitive construction illustrated in I
lay me down to sleep, Ø Sit you
down, or Ø Hie thee hence ..."

FWIW:

I lay mine arse down to sleep

Sit your ass down! (Surely, everyone is familiar with this one,
anymore <har! har!>)

Hie thine arse hence

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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