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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Calque of Yiddish װער פֿאַרבלאָנדזשעט (ver farblondzhet).
Pronunciation[edit]
Interjection[edit]
- (colloquial, dismissal) Used to rudely tell somebody to go away or leave one alone.
Synonyms[edit]
- (used to tell someone to go away): beat it, push off, go away, fuck off, take a hike, piss off, bugger off, clear off, away with you, on with you, forget you, vamoose, go jump in the lake, take a long walk on a short pier
- See also Thesaurus:go away
Usage notes[edit]
- Telling someone to "get lost!" is slightly more rude than, for example, "beat it!" but less rude or vulgar than "piss off" or "fuck 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[edit]
Go away!
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Verb[edit]
get lost (third-person singular simple present gets lost, present participle getting lost, simple past got lost, past participle (UK) got lost or (US) gotten lost)
- (intransitive) To lose one's way.
- Don't you have a map? How did we get lost?
- I got lost in his reasoning.
- (intransitive, of an object) To go missing; to be in a location unknown to someone who is looking for it.
- My keys got lost while I was out today.
- (intransitive) To be absent, to seem to be absent.
- The violins get lost with the rest of the music.
- (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!
- They had a row and Fred told Jack to get lost.
- Jack did a good job of getting lost: nobody saw him for 4 years.
Translations[edit]
lose one's way
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to go missing
to appear to be absent
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