YOU’RE ANOTHER, phr. (old).—A tu quoque: i.e., ANOTHER liar, fool, thief—any imaginable term of abuse.
1534. UDALL, Roister Doister, iii. 5. Roister. If it were an other but thou, it were a knaue. M. Mery. YE ARE AN OTHER your selfe, sir, the lorde us both saue.
1569. PRESTON, Cambyses [DODSLEY, Old Plays (HAZLITT), iv. 220]. Lob. And thou call’st me knave, THOU ART ANOTHER.
1749. FIELDING, Tom Jones, IX. vi. ‘I did not mean to abuse the cloth; I only said your conclusion was a non sequitur.’ ‘YOU ARE ANOTHER,’ cries the sergeant, ‘an’ you come to that; no more a sequitur than yourself.’
1836. DICKENS, Pickwick Papers, xv. ‘Sir,’ said Mr. Tupman, ‘you’re a fellow.’ ‘Sir,’ said Mr. Pickwick, ‘YOU’RE ANOTHER.’
1882. The Literary World, 3 June 184. 3. The argument of it is simply, ‘YOU’RE ANOTHER’—a retort in dignified manner to those British critics.
1888. SIR W. HARCOURT, Speech at Eighty Club, 21 Feb. Little urchins in the street have a conclusive argument. They say ‘YOU’RE ANOTHER.’
See NAIL.
