"All yours"

[Jonathan Lighter]

The use is clearly ironic. "All yours" usually means something is happening
to your advantage, but not in this case.

JL


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> The usually reliable OED says the phrase ("all", P19) dates from
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> 1509   H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) xlvii. sig.
> M.i,   Yf there is ony thynge that I can do for you I am all yours
> bothe body & godes.
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> However, this is the speaker offering himself, rather than offering
> something else (such as the platform).  (Viz. W. Brewer's various
> senses.)  I don't explicitly find "the floor" offered in the OED's
> quotations; perhaps one such example is needed.
>
> Joel
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> At 11/7/2013 12:22 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >On Nov 7, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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> > > I was watching an ad for the latest Thor movie, and a female character
> says
> > > "All yours", in the context of inviting another character to step
> forward
> > > and do something.
> > >
> >
> >Elliptical for "The floor is all yours"?
> >LH
> >
> > > I was wondering how old that use of "All yours", as an invitation to
> > > another to take centerstage, or otherwise do something, is.
> > >
> > > DanG
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