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From the OED: "speak for yourself: expressing a desire to dissociate oneself from what another has just said or the assumptions behind it."
by NoPiece 14y ago
From the OED:
"speak for yourself: expressing a desire to dissociate oneself from what another has just said or the assumptions behind it."
- dfc 14y agoThat looks like a suprisingly terse entry from the oed. I do not think io have eveer seen such a short entry from the oed. How much did you edit and leave out? How many people put "can" in front of the idiom?
- NoPiece 14y agoIn the OED entry for the verb "speak," there is a sub entry for "to speak for." About half of that is devoted to "speak for yourself," which is what I quoted. It is followed by the typical list of examples. There was a Simpsons reincarnation joke that used the phrase: Sideshow Mel: You only live once! Apu: Hey, speak for yourself! http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Simpsons/Season_9#Miracle_on_Evergreen_Terrace http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Simpsons/Season_9#Miracle_o...
- dfc 14y agoHow many of the example entries are preceded by "can?"