show someone one's etchings

verb

A clichéd innuendo used to offer to bring someone to a private location in order to have sex, to show a place where people can engage in sexual intercourse (alternatively replacing "someone" with a phrase starting with to)

“Let me show you my etchings.”

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Meanings

verbshow someone one's etchings (third-person singular simple present shows someone one's etchings, present participle showing someone one's etchings, simple past showed someone one's etchings, past participle shown someone one's etchings)

present singular third person shows someone one's etchings · participle present showing someone one's etchings · past showed someone one's etchings · participle past shown someone one's etchings

  1. idiomaticA clichéd innuendo used to offer to bring someone to a private location in order to have sex, to show a place where people can engage in sexual intercourse (alternatively replacing "someone" with a phrase starting with to)

    Let me show you my etchings.

    1 more example

    “Never wanted to show off my etchings before. I only show my etchings to redheads,” he said with a grin. ”Now that you've come, I can't wait to show them to you.[…]”

    1988, Ruth Seamands, Pearls in the Rain, Bristol Books, →ISBN, page 47

    Synonyms: discuss Uganda, graft the forked tree, someone's etchings

Synonyms & antonyms

verbA clichéd innuendo used to offer to bring someone to a private location in order to have sex, to show a place where people can engage in sexual intercourse (alternatively replacing "someone" with a phrase starting with to)

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