miss oneself

English

Verb

miss oneself (third-person singular simple present misses oneself, present participle missing oneself, simple past and past participle missed oneself)

1. (UK) To miss an enjoyable experience through not being in the right place at the right time.
   • 2011, Alan Warner, The Stars in the Bright Sky, →ISBN, page 80:

     'Shelly McCrindle? Did she go with yous?' Finn pursed her lips in surprise. 'Aye, You really missed yourself.'

   • 2012, James Kelman, The Busconductor Hines, →ISBN:

     Heh Willie, said a conductor, you missed yourself; best Meeting I've ever been at.

   • 2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN:

     'You'll miss yourself. A walk about and a nice fish supper. If we get the sun it'll be lovely.'

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see miss,‎ oneself.
   • 2011, Slavoj Žižek, John Milbank, Creston Davis, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?, →ISBN, page 35:

     If you do not consent to detachment, God will miss his Godhead, and man will miss himself.

   • 2013, Alan Dean Foster, Carnivores of Light and Darkness, →ISBN:

     If sugar turned bitter, he would miss the sweet. And if he someday turned old and mean, he would miss himself.