get lost

English

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Interjection

get lost

1. (idiomatic, colloquial, dismissal) Used to tell somebody to go away or leave one alone.

Synonyms

• (used to tell someone to go away): beat it, push off, go away, take a hike, piss off, bugger off, clear off, away with you!, vamoose!
• See also Thesaurus:go away

Usage notes

• Telling someone to "get lost!" is slightly more rude than, for example, "beat it!" but less rude or vulgar than "bugger off"; polite ways to ask someone to leave include "please leave me alone" or the more indirect "I need time to myself at the moment".
• Most verbs that may be used to refer to oneself leaving quickly (such as scat or vamoose) can be used as synonyms for "get lost" when said to another person.
• "Getting lost", the state of losing one's bearings, should not be confused with "get lost!".

Translations

Go away!

• Afrikaans: voertsek (af)
• Arabic: اُغْرُب عَن وَجْهِي!‎ (uḡrub ʿan wajhi!), إِبْتَعِد عَنِّي!‎ (ʾibtaʿid ʿanni!) (to a male), أُغْرُبِي عَن وَجْهِي‎ (ʾuḡrubī ʿan wajhī), إِبْتَعِدِي عَنِّي‎ (ʾibtaʿidī ʿannī) (to a female)
• Armenian: ռադ եղիր (ṙad ełir)
• Bulgarian: изчезвай! (bg) (izčezvaj!)
• Catalan: tocar el dos (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 走開, 走开 (zau² hoi¹), 死開, 死开 (sei² hoi¹), 躝屍趌路 (yue), 𨅬尸趌路 (laan¹ si¹ gat⁶ lou⁶), 躝開！, 𨅬开！ (laan¹ hoi¹!)

  Mandarin: 滾！ (zh), 滚！ (zh) (gǔn!), 走開！ (zh), 走开！ (zh) (zǒukāi!), 滾開！ (zh), 滚开！ (zh) (gǔnkāi!)

• Czech: táhni, zmiz, kliď se
• Dutch: flikker op (nl)
• Finnish: häivy!, ala mennä!
• French: casse-toi !, tire-toi !, barre-toi !, va te faire !, va te faire voir !, va te faire fiche !, dégage ! (fr)
• German: hau ab! (de), geh weg! (de), verschwinde! (de), mach, dass Du wegkommst!, verpiss Dich!
• Greek: χάσου (el) (chásou), άει χάσου (áei chásou)
• Hindi: दफा हो जाओ m (daphā ho jāo)
• Italian: vai!, sparisci! (colloquial), vattene!
• Japanese: 消えて！ (きえて！, kiete!), あっちへ行け！ (あっちへいけ！, atchi-e ike!), 失せろ！ (うせろ！, usero!), 消えてなくなれ！ (きえてなくなれ！, kiete nakunare!), 消えろ！ (きえろ！, kiero!)
• Korean: 꺼져 (kkeojyeo)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ده‌ بڕۆ‎ (de birro)

• Malay: berhambus!
• Maltese: itlaq! (for person), mur l'hemm! (for person), kixxi! (for animal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kom deg vekk!

  Nynorsk: kom deg vekk!

• Occitan: Vai te'n cagar !
• Persian: گم شو‎ (gom šow)
• Polish: spadaj!, zjeżdżaj!
• Portuguese: vá/vai embora!, se/te manda!
• Romanian: lasă-mă-n pace!, dispare (ro)!
• Russian: пошёл во́н! (pošól vón!) (to a male), пошла́ во́н! (pošlá vón!) (to a female), убира́йся! (ubirájsja!), исче́зни! (isčézni!), кати́сь! (katísʹ!), прова́ливай! (proválivaj!), отвали́! (otvalí!)
• Serbo-Croatian: губи се! (gubi se!)
• Spanish: ¡vete a bañar!, ¡ándate! (es), ¡vete! (es), ¡piérdete! (es)
• Swedish: stick!, försvinn!, dunsta (slang)
• Turkish: defol (tr), defol git
• Ukrainian: іди геть! (idý het'), геть звідси! (het' zvídsy), зникни! (znýkny)
• Urdu: دفعہ ہو جاؤ‎ m (dafā ho jāo)
• Yiddish: גיי קאַקן אויפֿן ים‎ (gey kakn oyfn yam) (vulgar)

Verb

get lost (third-person singular simple present gets lost, present participle getting lost, simple past got lost, past participle (chiefly British) got lost or (North America, archaic in UK) gotten lost)

1. (intransitive) To lose one's way.

   Don't you have a map? How did we get lost?

   I got lost in his reasoning.

2. (intransitive) To be absent, to seem to be absent.

   The violins get lost with the rest of the music.

3. (intransitive, usually in imperative and reported speech, idiomatic) To exit from the scene.

   I don't want to have to tell you again: Get lost!

   After things calmed down, Fred told Jack to just get lost.

   Jack did a good job of getting lost: nobody saw him for 4 years.

Translations

become lost

• Arabic: ضَلَّ اَلطَّرِيق‎ (ḍalla ṭ-ṭarīq)
• Armenian: կորել (hy) (korel)
• Basque: galdu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迷路 (zh) (mílù)

• Czech: zabloudit
• Finnish: eksyä (fi)
• French: se perdre (fr), s'égarer (fr), se paumer (fr) (slang)
• Galician: perderse
• German: ^{(please verify)} sich verirren , ^{(please verify)} sich verlaufen , ^{(please verify)} die Orientierung verlieren
• Greek: χάνομαι (el) (chánomai)
• Italian: perdersi (it)
• Japanese: 迷う (ja) (まよう, mayou)

• Jingpho: shamat kau sai, mat mat sai, n-nga mat sai
• Korean: 길을 잃다 (gir-eul ilta)
• Old Turkic: 𐰀𐰕‎ (āz-)
• Polish: zgubić się (pl), zabłądzić (pl)
• Portuguese: perder-se
• Quechua: chinkay
• Romanian: rătăci (ro), se pierde
• Russian: заблуди́ться (ru) (zabludítʹsja)
• Spanish: perderse (es)
• Swedish: gå vilse, komma vilse, irra bort sig, förirra sig (sv)
• Turkish: kaybolmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: заблукати (zablukáty), загубитися (zahubýtysja)
• Vietnamese: lạc (vi), lạc đường, lạc lối

to appear to be absent

• Dutch: ophoepelen (nl), oprotten (nl), opflikkeren (nl), opdonderen (nl), ophoeren, oplazeren (nl), opsodemieteren (nl), wegwezen (nl)
• Finnish: hukkua (fi), hävitä (fi)

• Ukrainian: загубитися (zahubýtysja)

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