used as a euphemism for fuck (verb) in various expressions
‘he told plenty of journalists to eff off’
‘Around 4: 45 I think, me and Julia and some other dude stumbled back to her house where I promptly passed the eff out.’
‘I'd tell you how, except I didn't see it because I was too busy trying to chronicle Ukraine's opener for posterity and being pestered by a fly that's buzzing around my head and won't effing eff the eff off.’
‘I could tell her to eff the eff off if she starts screaming at you or whatever.’
‘America have come out with more purpose and energy than they showed against the Czechs, and there really is nothing else to say because eff all has happened.’
‘‘It may be tricky for you to tell him to eff off, but not me,’ she says.’
‘Two cards for the Dutch already and the referee, for those who asked, is someone about whom I know precisely eff all.’
‘Well, eff the players, and eff the owners, and eff their not-a-whit-of-difference agreement.’
‘I genuinely like my ex, we DO have a friendship even though he definitely would like more, plus I have hurt him very badly and am loath to just tell him to eff off.’
‘You know what that means - he can go eff himself.’
‘Tell everyone around them who doesn't like it to just eff off!’
‘But then Leif and Ryder wouldn't have looked so surprised when I made the comment about them effing me up.’
noun
informal
used as a euphemism for fuck (noun) in various expressions
‘get yourself cleaned up, for eff's sake’
Phrases
eff and blind British informal
Use expletives; swear.
‘I scrabbled for my clothes, effing and blinding’
‘Far better, then, to get a whole bunch of ordinary people for him to humiliate and eff and blind at instead.’
‘They never get in trouble when they eff and blind at home.’
‘He used to eff and blind at me but he was a superb coach.’
Origin
1940s (in the phrase eff and blind): the letter F represented as a word.
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