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English
Verb
miss oneself (third-person singular simple present misses oneself, present participle missing oneself, simple past and past participle missed oneself)
- (UK) To miss an enjoyable experience through not being in the right place at the right time.
2011, Alan Warner, The Stars in the Bright Sky, →ISBN, page 80:'Shelly McCrindle? Did she go with yous?' Finn pursed her lips in surprise. 'Aye, You really missed yourself.'
2012, James Kelman, The Busconductor Hines, →ISBN:Heh Willie, said a conductor, you missed yourself; best Meeting I've ever been at.
2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN:'You'll miss yourself. A walk about and a nice fish supper. If we get the sun it'll be lovely.'
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see miss, oneself.
2011, Slavoj Žižek, John Milbank, Creston Davis, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?, →ISBN, page 35:If you do not consent to detachment, God will miss his Godhead, and man will miss himself.
2013, Alan Dean Foster, Carnivores of Light and Darkness, →ISBN:If sugar turned bitter, he would miss the sweet. And if he someday turned old and mean, he would miss himself.