screw it
Expression of frustration or contempt.
This mathematical problem is really difficult. Oh, screw it! I can't be bothered.
screw
/skɹuː/
noun 5verb 5
Collocations
8(noun.)
ADJ
masonry, wood
VERB + SCREW
fix, loosen, tighten, turn
(verb.)
ADV
firmly, tightly
down, together
He screwed the wooden shelf together using a drill and several metal bolts.
PREP
into
He screwed the hook into the wall to hang the picture frame.
on/onto
He screwed the new lightbulb onto the lamp in the hallway.
to
The carpenter screwed the shelf to the wall with strong brackets.
PHRASES
screw sth in place/into position
He carefully screwed the mirror into position on the bathroom wall.
Definitions
noun
1
A device that has a helical function.
2
A device that has a helical function.
3
A device that has a helical function.
It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
4
A device that has a helical function.
5
A device that has a helical function.
verb
1
To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
2
To have sexual intercourse with.
Somebody told me [...] that she [...] acknowledged to him [...] that Nero [...] had screwed her (meaning had carnal intercourse with plaintiff) up stairs the night before.
He had contemplated Pym in all the stages he had grown up with him, drunk with him and worked with him, including a night in Berlin he had totally forgotten until now when they had ended up screwing a couple of army nurses in adjoining rooms.
3
To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
4
To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
[…] our country landlords, by unmeasurable screwing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France, or the vassals in Germany and Poland […]
It is not surprising that the landowner strove to screw his tenants.
5
To contort.
He screwed his face into a hardened smile.
I had been calling Nobs in the meantime and was about to set out in search of him, fearing, to tell the truth, to do so lest I find him mangled and dead among the trees of the acacia grove, when he suddenly emerged from among the boles, his ears flattened, his tail between his legs and his body screwed into a suppliant S. He was unharmed except for minor bruises; but he was the most chastened dog I have ever seen.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
screw the pooch
to make a large mistake, to fail in dramatic and ignominious fashion.
screw you
less offensive version of fuck you.
You'll just lie in your bed all day rather than help us? Well, screw you.
screw off
To remove the lid of a jar or other container by unscrewing it.
Hold it in two hands and screw off the lid. Set the lid down. Inside are pickled onions.
turn the screw
To increase the pressure of a situation.
Arsenal's dominance was reflected in a flurry of goals before half-time – three in six minutes: first, Podolski turned the screw with a peach of a free-kick; then Gervinho accelera
Example Bank
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It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fuss
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The screws moved her out of my cell because they could not stand the idea of a black and white white being together.
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And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in th
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Somebody told me [...] that she [...] acknowledged to him [...] that Nero [...] had screwed her (meaning had carnal intercourse with plaintiff) up stairs the night before.
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He had contemplated Pym in all the stages he had grown up with him, drunk with him and worked with him, including a night in Berlin he had totally forgotten until now when they had ended up screwing a
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"Maybe they weren't screwing, my dear. They were just hanging out, you know." "They were screwing, my dear."
WiktionaryUsage Notes
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