to go climb a tree
- idiom
- Informal
- Just go climb a tree!
Examples
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If you're going to keep complaining, go climb a tree and leave me alone.
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When Tim started whining again, his sister told him to go climb a tree.
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He shrugged off the rude comment and simply said, 'Go climb a tree.'
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Why don't you go climb a tree instead of bothering me?
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If you're going to keep complaining, go climb a tree and leave me alone.
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When Tim started whining again, his sister told him to go climb a tree.
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He shrugged off the rude comment and simply said, 'Go climb a tree.'
Synonyms
Tell someone angrily to go away and that you will not accept their idea
To tell someone to go away right away in a rude or angry way
Tell someone to go away immediately in a rude way
Tell someone to go away and leave you alone
Tell someone rudely to go away or leave you alone
Tell someone to go away and leave you alone
To tell someone rudely to leave
Rudely tell someone to go away and stop bothering you
Rudely say to someone that you want them to go away
Tell someone to go away in a rude way
Angrily tell someone to go away
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
To leave a place quickly, often as a joke
Antonyms
How Rude
- Informal
- Offensive
- Informal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Although the constituents 'go', 'climb' and 'tree' have clear literal meanings, the expression is used idiomatically as a dismissive imperative meaning 'go away' or 'stop annoying me'. That pragmatic, insulting sense is not transparently derivable from the literal composition and varies cross‑linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the words would likely interpret it literally rather than infer the idiomatic meaning.
Etymology
Go climb a tree is an old, rude way to tell someone to go away. The phrase gives the image of sending a person off to do something silly or hard, like literally climb a tree, so it now means 'leave me alone' or 'stop annoying me'.