show someone one's etchings

== English == === Verb === show someone one's etchings (third-person singular simple present shows someone one's etchings, present participle showing someone one's etchings, simple past showed someone one's etchings, past participle shown someone one's etchings) (idiomatic) A clichéd innuendo used to offer to bring someone to a private location in order to have sex, to show a place where people can engage in sexual intercourse (alternatively replacing "someone" with a phrase starting with to) ==== Usage notes ==== Ian Stuart-Hamilton's An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions notes that this is rarely used as "an invitation to have sexual intercourse", presumably speaking of real-life situations. However, this sense remains a common trope in fiction. ==== Synonyms ==== discuss Uganda, graft the forked tree, see someone's etchings; see also Thesaurus:copulate === References ===