Thy
back, I prithee.
-Timon
Timon of Athens Act IV, Scene iii, Line 397
I didn’t realize what this line meant at first, but it’s
delightfully simple once you realize what it is. Timon has been arguing with
this other fellow and now he just wants that guy to go away. ‘Please let me see
the back of you while you’re leaving.’ ‘I Prithee’ is just slang for ‘I pray
thee’, which is just a long, polite way to say ‘Please’. Another, somewhat less polite, way to say it
is ‘Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.’ Or just simply ‘Get
lost!’
This is one of those lines that you could use constantly and
the person you’re talking to wouldn’t know what you’re saying. And sometimes
that’s a good thing. Are you thinking you're kind of done with this post and that you’d like to be saying this to me
right now. "Thy back, I prithee!"
Okay then, I'm leaving.
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