see someone's etchings

English

Verb

see someone's etchings (third-person singular simple present sees someone's etchings, present participle seeing someone's etchings, simple past saw someone's etchings, past participle seen someone's etchings)

1. (idiomatic, informal) A clichéd innuendo used in offers to withdraw to a private location for sex; to go to a private location with someone in order to have sexual congress.

   Synonym: view someone's etchings

   Would you like to see my etchings?

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 common in fiction.

Synonyms

• discuss Uganda, graft the forked tree, show someone one's etchings; see also Thesaurus:copulate