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"Screw you" originally denoted an early 18th Century metaphor: driving a screw in with a screwdriver. Later on, it began to refer to having sex with. So it is basically a variation of, "f---k you." Now, people say it as they would say "curse you," most often saying it to a person that they hate.

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