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your_man

your man

English

Alternative forms

  • yer man

Pronoun

your man

  1. Used other than as an idiom: see your, man.
  2. (Ireland) that man, the man in question
    • 2002, Geoff Wallis, Mark Connolly, Margaret Greenwood, The Rough Guide to Dublin, page 122:
      ... from the work of John Gilroy, whose animal cartoons and painful puns are still used to this day, to modern masterpieces such as the surfing ad (which led the Irish singer-songwriter Christy Moore to ponder "how yer man stayed up on that surfboard after fourteen pints of stout").
    • 2004, May O'Brien, Clouds on My Windows: A Dublin Memoir, page 151:
      No, your man there with the kind of hooded eyes, talking to Tom O'Reilly. That's Frank Purcell, the general secretary.
    • 2005, John Doyle, A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age, page 81:
      Your man is talking away but it's not dramatically correct to have him just jawing on and on, when there's no movement.
    • 2008, Andrew Higgins Wyndham, Re-imagining Ireland, page 29:
      "What did yer man want?" "Dunno, couldn't understand him."

Noun

your man (uncountable)

  1. (informal) An expert.
    When it comes to DIY, I'm your man.

Coordinate terms

  • your woman, yer woman, your wan, yer wan