go jump in the lake
- idiom
- Offensive
:
vete a la mierda
- Fed up with the demands, he told his boss to go jump in the lake.
Examples
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When he kept pestering me, I finally told him to go jump in the lake.
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She rolled her eyes and said, 'If you don't like it, then go jump in the lake.'
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Why don't you just go jump in the lake?
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I told him to go jump in the lake after he annoyed me.
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If he keeps bothering me, I'll just tell him to go jump in the lake.
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When she continued to complain, I said, "Why don't you go jump in the lake?"
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He told his annoying colleague to go jump in the lake during the meeting.
Synonyms
38
9.9
Tell someone angrily to go away and that you will not accept their idea
2
9.9
Tell someone rudely to go away or leave you alone
2
9.9
Tell someone to go away in a rude way
1
9.5
To tell someone rudely to leave
1
9.9
Tell someone to leave in a rude, angry way
1
9.9
Tell someone to go away and leave you alone
Rudely say to someone that you want them to go away
Angrily tell someone to go away
To tell someone to go away and stop annoying you
To tell someone to go away in a rude, angry way
To tell someone angrily to go away and leave you alone
A rude joking way to tell someone to go away without meaning it
A rude phrase that tells someone to stop complaining and leave for a while
Antonyms
How Rude
- Informal
52
8.4
- Offensive
104
9.9
- Offensive
67
9.5
- Offensive
- Informal
1
6.3
709
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Although the words literally describe a physical action (go + jump + in + the + lake), the established use of this phrase as a rude dismissal is idiomatic and not directly derivable from the constituents. A B1 learner who knows the individual words would likely take it literally or be uncertain about the pragmatic insult; the dismissive meaning is conventional and therefore opaque.
Etymology
Go jump in the lake paints a clear, rude picture: telling someone to jump into a lake so they disappear and leave you alone. That's why it is used to tell someone 'go away' or 'stop bothering me'.