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Extravaganza Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Who's your daddy?

0 "Who's your daddy?" 02br
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00Well, I first guessed its meaning was "Who do you think I am?" but I realized I was wrong. I heard this idiom in some American movies and series such as American Dad. 02br
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00What does it exactly mean and when is it used? 02br
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0 Yipes! Does anyone want to tackle this one? Someone who can say it with delicacy and yet not so vague that our guest would mistake the context?

— CalifJim

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0 Yipes! Does anyone want to tackle this one? Someone who can say it with delicacy and yet not so vague that our guest would mistake the context? 0-
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0 It is an arrogant quote used by people when referencing themselves as the superior to the person or object they are opposing. 02br
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00It is meant be said in a humor context, but some take offense to it when used in the worst of conditions. 02br
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001. If a cat scratched me and I put it in a cage, I would say, "Who's your daddy?" 02br
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0 Hello, 02br
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00Sorry for the interruption, would it be inconevinient to answer this by 'Ask your Mummy? 02br
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0No meaning, X, and therefore dangerous. You would get either a blank stare or a punch in the face. 0-
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0 Thanks for the warning Mister Micawber, it's a traitorous land. 0-
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0'Ask your mummy' – 05002br
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00It might be worth the black eye. 02br
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0 Hmmm. 02br
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00This is more what I had in mind: 02br
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00"Who's Your Daddy? 02br
00-- a colloquial phrase that [has recently] gained popularity .... It is a demand on the speaker's part for respect from the addressee, and tends to carry slightly sexual overtones, as it is often employed as a psuedo-Freudian 01u00outburst duri
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0 Let us not forget that the phrase can also be used without any such connotations by way of simply enquiring after a child's father. And when said father has been identified, ask for further verification e.g. birth certificates, postal address, DNA samples etc. 0-
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Sorry, but I don't see any likelihood of the words "Who's your Daddy?" coming up in the same context as "birth certificate" and "DNA sample"! "paternity" or "paternity suit", maybe!

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I agree with Jim's version.

It became a bit of a craze phrase a couple of years ago. The right (!) way to use it was to usually slap someone on the *** and say 'Who's yer daddy!!' in a mock threatening/lecherous drawl.

There was a series of advertisements around that time for crisps starring Ray Winstone, who is a British actor very popular in Hollywood now for playing threat
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