go jump in the lake
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English
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Phrase
[edit]- (idiomatic, derogatory, colloquial, often sarcastic) Used to tell someone to go away, or that their request will not be met.
- When I asked for help cleaning the mess I made, the janitor told me to go jump in the lake, but he was only joking.
- 1917, Ontario. Royal Nickel Commission, George Thomas Holloway, Report of the Royal Ontario Nickel Commission: with appendix, page 22:
- ... to sell it to the Mond or the International Nickel Company, and if they didn't choose to take it from us, they would tell us to go jump in the lake.
- 1985, Australia. Parliament. Senate, Parliamentary debates, Senate, weekly Hansard, Issue 10, page 193:
- We would tell the USSR to go jump in the lake. There would be no way we would tolerate that.
Alternative forms
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[edit]- get lost
- go fly a kite
- take a long walk on a short pier
- go jump off a cliff
- go jump off a building
- go jump off a cliff