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I transcribed a podcast ad.

I’m Robert Evans. I host a podcast called Behind the Bastards where we give in-depth histories about the worst people who ever lived. Your Hitlers, your Stalins, all the greats.

I wonder what 'your Hitlers' means here.

Does it mean the worst people who you think are as bad as Hitler?

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It just means 'notoriously bad people such as Hitler and Stalin'.

Your here does not mean 'belonging to you' - it's just an informal usage for the.

INFORMAL - used to denote someone or something that is familiar or typical of its kind. "I'm just your average man in the street" (Oxford Languages).

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  • Thank you very much.
    – user153498
    Commented May 7, 2022 at 12:54
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    I feel a bit strange about classifying Hitler and Stalin as being among the 'greats', since this tends to have a positive connotation - I don't have that problem about Shakespeare, Mozart, Dickens, or Lana Del Rey.
    – Michael Harvey
    Commented May 7, 2022 at 20:37
  • @MichaelHarvey I totally agree with you.
    – user153498
    Commented May 8, 2022 at 0:13
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    @MichaelHarvey - Presumably it was meant ironically.
    – Kate Bunting
    Commented May 8, 2022 at 7:57

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