to kick rocks
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9.9
- phrasal verb
- /kɪk rɑks/
- Offensive
:
vete a la mierda (vulgar)
- It's so funny how many numb nuts hate on Apple; they are the originators of it all. I've had Android before, and personally, it's a kids' operating system, so all the iPhone haters kick rocks and hush up already.
You know, so if they, if they, if Asus tells the FTC to go kick rocks, I do not think that it's, it's in their self-interest to do that.
- You know, so if they, if they, if Asus tells the FTC to go kick rocks, I do not think that it's, it's in their self-interest to do that.
Examples
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He can go kick rocks with that idea.
Blog text (23) -
Jacobs is here for one season; if he doesn't like winning, he can kick rocks.
Blog text (32) -
Now this person can go kick rocks.
Blog text (29) -
Why don't you kick rocks and get off my property?
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Go kick rocks, you nutless fool.
Blog text (11) -
Kick rocks then.
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You know, so if they, if they, if Asus tells the FTC to go kick rocks, I do not think that it's, it's in their self-interest to do that.
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However, if CB can't make up his mind and keeps spending time with Kaeopectate, then Rihanna needs to tell him to kick rocks.
Blog text (19) -
If you don't want to help us, you can just kick rocks.
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After arguing for an hour, I told him to kick rocks and leave me alone.
Synonyms
38
9.9
Tell someone angrily to go away and that you will not accept their idea
12
8.4
To tell someone to go away right away in a rude or angry way
12
9.9
Tell someone to go away immediately in a rude way
12
7.7
Leave a place quickly, often in a rude way
4
8.9
Tell someone to go away and leave you alone
3
9.9
Tell someone to go away in a rude way
2
9.9
Tell someone to go away in a rude way
2
9.9
Tell someone rudely to go away or leave you alone
1
9.5
To tell someone rudely to leave
1
9.9
Tell someone to leave in a rude, angry way
To leave a place quickly, often in a rude way
A short spoken word telling someone to go away now
Angrily tell someone to go away
Rudely say to someone that you want them to go away
A rude joking way to tell someone to go away without meaning it
Rudely tell someone to go away and stop bothering you
To tell someone to go away and stop annoying you
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
kick + rocks
The slang meaning 'go away' is not derivable from the literal words 'kick' (to strike with the foot) and 'rocks' (stones); a learner would likely picture someone literally kicking stones. This dismissive, cultural idiom is unpredictable from its parts and would be opaque to a B1 learner who had not previously encountered it.
Etymology
Kick rocks may come from the image of sending someone to the side of the road to kick rocks, a pointless, boring job. So it is used to tell someone 'go away' or 'leave me alone'.