miss oneself
English
Verb
miss oneself (third-person singular simple present misses oneself, present participle missing oneself, simple past and past participle missed oneself)
- (Britain) 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.'
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- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: 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.
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