to get on yer bike - Glite Dictionary

Examples

Why don't you get on yer bike and stop bothering us?
When Tom started asking for money again, his cousin told him to get on yer bike.
After being rejected for the third time, she was told by her boss to get on yer bike.
If you don't like my decision, you can just get on yer bike and find another place to live.
If you don't like my decision, you can just get on yer bike and find another place to live.
Just get on yer bike and leave me alone!
When Tom started asking for money again, his cousin told him to get on yer bike.

Synonyms

to bugger off

vsto get on yer bike

Offensive

12 9.9

Tell someone to go away immediately in a rude way

is similarly rude but more informal and used in British speech

to bug off

vsto get on yer bike

Informal

4 8.9

Tell someone to go away and leave you alone

is British and often more blunt or irritated than this phrase

to get stuffed

vsto get on yer bike

Offensive

2 9.9

Tell someone rudely to go away or leave you alone

is British and used as a blunt rejection with irritated tone

to get bent

vsto get on yer bike

Offensive

1 9.9

Tell someone to leave in a rude, angry way

is British and more plainly dismissive rather than insulting

go jump in the lake

vsto get on yer bike

Offensive

9.1

Rudely tell someone to go away and stop bothering you

is British and more colloquial and sharply dismissive than this

to go climb a tree

vsto get on yer bike

Informal

9.8

To tell someone to go away and stop annoying you

is British and more strongly dismissive or irritated than this

take a long walk on a short pier

vsto get on yer bike

Offensive

9.9

To tell someone to go away in a rude, angry way

is shorter, more direct, and used in plain British irritation

Antonyms

to linger

207 3.7

To stay in a place longer than expected because you do not want to leave

to stay put

Informal

133 2.0

Remain in the same place without moving

Surface Forms

get on yer bike infinitive

getting on yer bike present participle

gets on yer bike third person singular

got on yer bike past

got on yer bike past participle

Morphology

get + on + yer + bike

The phrase is built from fully transparent parts ('get on' + 'yer' + 'bike') so a learner will understand the literal instruction to mount or use a bicycle, but its conventional British slang use meaning 'go away' is a pragmatic/idiomatic extension rather than a directly compositional meaning. Because the dismissive, imperative sense relies on dialectal usage and pragmatic inference, it is not fully predictable for a B1 learner without prior exposure.

Etymology

Get on yer bike comes from a simple picture: someone being told to get on a bike and ride away. So it is used to tell someone to 'go away' or 'leave' in a rude or angry way.