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the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get en · X

Pronunciation

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Meanings

  1. (vulgar) The sexual satisfactions that one receives from a spouse or romantic partner are not sufficient to compensate for the significant periods of bad faith and unpleasant treatment which such relationships routinely involve.
    • Years later she expressed her disillusionment with sex by saying, "The fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get." 1971, Allen Churchill, The Literary Decade, →ISBN:
    • Maitland got drunk at his parties and threw his arm around you and pulled you over to his wife and made you look down her dress, saying, "The trouble with marriage is that the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get." 1999, Ben Sonnenberg, Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy, →ISBN, page 93:
    • "I can't believe a little pussy got me into dis mess." "Shit happens," Service said. "Sometimes the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get." 2008, Joseph Heywood, Blue Wolf In Green Fire, →ISBN, page 63:

Forms

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the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you take alternative lexicographic
the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you get alternative lexicographic
the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to get alternative lexicographic