- screw someone up
- screw someone up†Inf. to confuse someone mentally. •
Please don't screw me up again!
•You screwed up my train of thought.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
screw someone up
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screw someone over informal, — screw someone over informal, chiefly US treat someone unfairly; cheat or swindle someone. → screw … English new terms dictionary
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screw someone over — tv. to give someone a very bad time; to scold someone severely. □ Those guys really screwed you over. What started it? CD Let’s get those kids in here and screw over every one of them. This stuff can’t continue … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
screw someone over — informal treat someone unfairly; cheat or swindle someone … Useful english dictionary
screw — screw1 [ skru ] noun count * 1. ) a thin pointed piece of metal used for fastening one thing to another. It has a raised twisted part on it called a thread. You push and turn it with a screwdriver instead of hitting it with a hammer like a nail:… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
screw — 1 noun 1 (C) a thin pointed piece of metal that you push and turn in order to fasten pieces of metal or wood together: Tighten the screws on the plug. 2 (C) slang taboo an act of having sex 3 have a screw loose informal often humorous to be… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
screw */ — I UK [skruː] / US [skru] verb Word forms screw : present tense I/you/we/they screw he/she/it screws present participle screwing past tense screwed past participle screwed 1) [transitive] to fasten one thing to another using screws Next screw the… … English dictionary
screw — noun 1》 a short, slender, sharp pointed metal pin with a raised helical thread running around it and a slotted head, used to join things together by being rotated in under pressure. ↘a cylinder with a helical ridge or thread running round the … English new terms dictionary
