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    give back what is mine
    can be addressed to a person or can be used as a noun, referring to the event or the person.
    said by women trying to get back their possessions from a guy, who has either stolen them or kept them for a long time, these possessions usually being very feminine, with the suggestion that the guy might be using them. the guy is generally a dandy as the phrase is taken from a passage by [Ovid] in his Ars Amatoria:
    Sed vitate viros cultum formamque professos,
    [Quique] [suas] ponunt in statione comas.
    [Quae] vobis [dicunt], dixerunt [mille] puellis: [435]
    [Errat] et in nulla [sede] moratur amor.
    [Femina] quid faciat, cum sit vir levior [ipsa],
    Forsitan et plures possit habere viros?
    [Vix] [mihi] credetis, sed credite: [Troia] maneret,
    Praeceptis Priamo si [foret] usa satae. 440
    Sunt qui mendaci specie grassentur [amoris],
    Perque aditus [talis] lucra pudenda [petant].
    [Nec] coma vos fallat liquido nitidissima [nardo],
    Nec brevis in rugas lingula pressa suas:
    Nec toga decipiat filo tenuissima, [nec] si 445
    Anulus in digitis alter et alter [erit].
    Forsitan ex horum numero cultissimus ille
    Fur sit, et uratur vestis [amore] tuae.
    Redde meum! clamant spoliatae saepe puellae,
    Redde meum! toto [voce] boante [foro].
    Avoid those men who profess to looks and culture,
    who keep their hair carefully in place.
    What they tell you they’ve told a thousand girls:
    their love wanders and lingers in no one place.
    Woman, what can you do with a man more delicate than you,
    and one perhaps who has more lovers too?
    You’ll scarcely credit it, but credit this: Troy would remain,
    if Cassandra’s warnings had been [heeded].
    Some will attack you with a lying pretence of love,
    and through that opening seek a shameful gain.
    But don’t be tricked by hair gleaming with liquid nard,
    or short tongues pressed into their creases:
    don’t be ensnared by a toga of finest threads,
    or that there’s a ring on every finger.
    Perhaps the best dressed among them all’s a thief,
    and burns with love of your finery.
    ‘Give it me back!’ the girl who’s robbed will often cry,
    ‘Give it me back!’ at the top of her voice in the cattle-market.
    the redde meum usually takes place the day of the walk of shame, so that the woman, with her cold materialism, might pretend as if nothing happened.
    it can also take place when the woman is freaking out that the guy has [severed ties], and the woman leaves something of hers purposely the night before
    finally, it can take place when the guy is just being a douche and has deliberately stolen something post-severing ties. the woman does this, not only to get her shit back, but also to embarrass him (with possibly a hint of feeling still left).

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