you and your + nominal group
- you and your + nominal group
This is an exclamatory type of vocative referring to something which is especially associated with the person being addressed. In A High Wind in Jamaica, by Richard Hughes, occurs: “‘I could smell it was an earthquake coming when I got up. Didn’t I say so, Emily?” “You and your smells!” said Jimmie Fernandez.’
Mountain of Winter, by Shirley Schoonover, has: You and your temper. Running him off like that’ The Colour of Money, by Walter Tevis, has one man who says to another: ‘You and your exquisite sensibilities!’ This is countered by: ‘You and your damned insights!’ Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, by Alan Sillitoe, has the dialectal ‘yo an yer bloody grett clod ‘oppers’, referring to the hearer’s large boots.
Lillian Beckwith, in The Hills is Lonely, has: ‘“Padruig, Padruig,” Morag chided the unseen occupants.
‘You and your ferrets! The smell of them is near knockin’ Miss Peckwitt over backwards.”’
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