miss oneself

present singular third person misses oneself · participle present missing oneself · participle past missed oneself · past missed oneself

1. UKTo miss an enjoyable experience through not being in the right place at the right time.

   Heh Willie, said a conductor, you missed yourself; best Meeting I've ever been at.

   2012, James Kelman, The Busconductor Hines, →ISBN

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   'Shelly McCrindle? Did she go with yous?' Finn pursed her lips in surprise. 'Aye, You really missed yourself.'

   2011, Alan Warner, The Stars in the Bright Sky, →ISBN, page 80

   'You'll miss yourself. A walk about and a nice fish supper. If we get the sun it'll be lovely.'

   2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see miss, oneself.

   If you do not consent to detachment, God will miss his Godhead, and man will miss himself.

   2011, Slavoj Žižek, John Milbank, Creston Davis, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?, →ISBN, page 35

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   If sugar turned bitter, he would miss the sweet. And if he someday turned old and mean, he would miss himself.

   2013, Alan Dean Foster, Carnivores of Light and Darkness, →ISBN