arse about
Verb
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Verb
- Alternative form of arse around
- (obsolete, slang) To turn round.
arse about (not comparable)
- (slang) The wrong way round; exactly opposite to that which is desirable; contrary; conceptually inverted; wrong.
- You've got this arse-about!
- 1995, David Wills, Prosthesis, Stanford University Press, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=c6toc8rMr74C&pg=PA207&dq=%22arse+about%22+-%22arse+-about+-face%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=x2C6ToOPHqSLmQXwzLmDCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22arse%20about%22%20-%22arse%20-about%20-face%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22&f=false page 207],
- For the dome of the belly turned arse about has its parallel in the eye that falls out like the contents of a broken egg and that in its evocation of and preempting of regeneration becomes, in Bataille's novel, unremittingly erotic and polymorphously perverse.
- 2008, Kieran Kelly, Aspiring, Pan MacMillan Australia, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=9NklGru9i60C&pg=PA65&dq=%22arse+about%22+-%22arse+-about+-face%22+-intitle:%22%22&hl=en&ei=MGW6Tu_YE4-VmQX4joGMCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22arse%20about%22%20-%22arse%20-about%20-face%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22&f=false page 65],
- ‘This is arse-about, you know,’ I said. ‘You′ve got the athletic skills, and I'm the one going mountain climbing. […] .’
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