takesies backsies

takesies backsies sg or pl

1. Alternative form of takesies-backsies.
   • 2017 April 3, Luke Holland, “When good TV goes bad: how The Walking Dead started to stink”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 April 2017:

     The one thing the show has always had for it was tension. People could die. And they did. Beloved characters, whom you’d spent entire seasons observing glumly wander the various arboreal environs of Georgia, could perish in a crimson shower of their most private innards. “Adorable old man” distilled, Hershel: dead. Rick’s best pal, the smouldering and cuckolder-ing Shane: dead. Rick’s wife Lori: so, so very dead, no takesies backsies.

   • 2022 April 7, Wyatt Arndt, “The Armies: Elias Pettersson, Vancouver Canucks superstar”, in The Athletic‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 December 2025:

     Thatcher Demko made an absolutely ludicrous save that almost went plaid, which was then followed up by Alex Chiasson making the wrong choice three straight times before Eichel finally scored for real this time, no takesies backsies.

   • 2022 July 13, Louise Allingham, “Young woman, 22, reveals the 10 reasons why she NEVER wants to have kids: 'I'm not a morning person and I don't like sharing food'”, in Daily Mail‎^[3], London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 December 2025:

     Lorella Palmer from the UK listed ten reasons she didn't want children in a video that has amassed more than 52,500 views and says kids come with a 'no refund policy, no returns, no takesies backsies'. […] 'I haven't seen her in nearly ten years so she tried doing like a whole takesies backsies situation like an Uno reverse flip card type of thing and she left me with nothing but depression,' she said.