go jump off a building
- idiom
- Offensive
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[Insulto ofensivo que sugiere suicidio]
- After I made a mistake, my brother jokingly told me to go jump off a building.
Examples
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She was so annoyed that she muttered, 'Why don't you go jump off a building?' under her breath.
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He didn't mean it and later apologized for telling his friend to go jump off a building during the argument.
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Just go jump off a building!
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You can just go jump off a building!
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After his comment, she replied sarcastically, 'Oh, why don't you go jump off a building then?'
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In a fit of frustration, he jokingly told his friend, 'You might as well go jump off a building with ideas like that!'
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When she dismissed his suggestion, she exclaimed, 'Please, just go jump off a building if that's what you think!'
Synonyms
38
9.9
Tell someone angrily to go away and that you will not accept their idea
37
9.9
A rude way to tell someone to go away and show strong anger
12
7.7
Leave a place quickly, often in a rude way
12
9.9
Tell someone to go away immediately in a rude way
1
9.9
Tell someone to go away and leave you alone
1
9.5
To tell someone rudely to leave
1
8.2
To tell someone to go away in a mild, angry way
To tell someone angrily to go away and leave you alone
Rudely tell someone to go away and stop bothering you
To tell someone to go away and stop annoying you
Angrily tell someone to go away
Rudely say to someone that you want them to go away
Antonyms
How Rude
- Offensive
- Informal
52
8.4
- Offensive
104
9.9
- Offensive
67
9.5
709
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
go + jump + off + a + building
The literal action 'go jump off a building' is directly composed from the constituents, so the physical meaning is transparent to a learner who knows the words. However, its common pragmatic use as a sarcastic or dismissive insult (not intended literally) is idiomatic and not fully predictable from the parts, so learners may misunderstand the intended non-literal force.
Etymology
Go jump off a building is a loud, rude exaggeration that creates a strong image of someone jumping off a building, a tall place used to show extreme anger. That's why people use it as an angry way 'to tell someone to go away' and it is 'not meant to be taken literally'.