you got a mouse in your pocket

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Etymology

From the idea of another referent included in "we," besides the speaker, being invisible.

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Phrase

you got a mouse in your pocket?

  1. (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[1], →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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