you got a mouse in your pocket
English
Alternative forms
- is there a mouse in your pocket?
Etymology
From the idea of another referent included in "we" besides the speaker being invisible.
Phrase
you got a mouse in your pocket?
- (rhetorical question, informal, sarcastic) Used as a response to statements starting with "we," usually indicating the speaker does not want to be involved in the interlocutor's statements.
- 1979, Rosemary Edelman, Fireworks: a novel, →ISBN, page 52:
- Your back teeth don't know what your front teeth are saying. 'We know nothing about anything.' Who's we, Connors, you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Translations
rhetorical question used as a response to "we" statements