up the ying-yang or less commonly out the ying-yangUS slang
: in very large amounts : in excess
When you have money up the ying-yang, you have go-fers, and you send them.—Neil Steinberg, The Chicago Sun-Times, 27 Jan. 2015
“There are transitional fossils out the ying-yang,” says Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education.—Josh Tyrangiel, Time, 10 June 2000
Word History
Etymology
earlier also “penis, coitus,” reduplicative expressive compound (with similar phonetic components as in earlier ding-dong, dong “penis,” wang, whang “penis”)
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