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to go fuck oneself

to go fuck oneself

37 9.9
A rude way to tell someone to go away and show strong anger
  • idiom
  • Offensive
translation icon : irse a la mierda
  • I'd have told my host to go fuck himself if he'd talked to me like that.
  • tell someone to go fuck themselves
  • say "Go fuck yourself"
  • just go fuck yourself

Examples

  • "Tell Axelrod to go fuck himself," he said.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Because if you're playing games with me, go fuck yourself.

    Academic text (2010)
  • You can tell him to go fuck himself.

  • Go fuck yourself, go fuck yourself, go fuck yourself!

  • And you can go fuck yourself.

  • Or at this point, I could just tell him to go fuck himself.

    Blog text (28)
  • Me, I'd tell him to go fuck himself.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Why don't you tell the Dean to go fuck himself?

    Fiction book (2000)
  • "Thanks for sharing, Errol," Malik said, "and now go fuck yourself."

    Fiction book (1997)
  • If you think I'm going to help you after that, you can go fuck yourself!

Synonyms

to fuck off
vsto go fuck oneself
  • Offensive
104 9.9

Leave or tell someone to leave in a rude way

is even more contemptuous and intensely dismissive toward the person
fuck you
vsto go fuck oneself
  • Offensive
69 9.9

A rude phrase used to strongly reject or insult someone

is an angry demand for the person to leave rather than a direct insult
kiss my ass
vsto go fuck oneself
  • Offensive
49 9.9

To tell someone rudely that you do not care about their opinion or order

is a stronger angry order to leave rather than merely showing defiance
to shove it
vsto go fuck oneself
  • Offensive
38 9.9

Tell someone angrily to go away and that you will not accept their idea

is more vulgar and intensely dismissive than this simpler rude refusal
to eat shit
vsto go fuck oneself
  • Offensive
8 9.9

Tell someone in a rude way to go away or warn they will be badly embarrassed

is more about angrily ordering the person to leave than threatening consequences
to get stuffed
vsto go fuck oneself
  • Offensive
2 9.9

Tell someone rudely to go away or leave you alone

is more offensive and expresses stronger contempt than this British informal phrase
fuck your mother
vsto go fuck oneself
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A very rude insult that shows extreme anger at someone by insulting their mother

is an angry command to leave rather than an extreme personal attack
shove it up your ass
vsto go fuck oneself
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A very rude way to tell someone you strongly refuse their idea or order

is an angry order to leave that adds strong contempt
to go to heck
vsto go fuck oneself
  • Informal
1 8.2

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

is much more vulgar and angrily contemptuous than this mild expression
to cock off
vsto go fuck oneself
  • Offensive
9.9

To tell someone to go away using rude language

is harsher with stronger personal contempt and angry dismissal
to tell someone where to shove it
vsto go fuck oneself
  • Offensive
9.9

Rudely say to someone that you want them to go away

is more contemptuous and personally dismissive than that expression
to eff off
vsto go fuck oneself
  • Offensive
9.9

A rude way to tell someone to go away without the real swear word

is more explicitly vulgar and angrily contemptuous than this euphemistic phrase
to go to blazes
vsto go fuck oneself
  • Offensive
9.9

Angrily tell someone to go away

is stronger and more offensive than this informal angry expression
go jump off a building
vsto go fuck oneself
  • Offensive
9.9

A rude joking way to tell someone to go away without meaning it

is an angry, vulgar order meant seriously rather than a joke

Antonyms

1.0

To remain in one place and not leave

How Dismissive

to go fuck oneself
  • Offensive
37 9.9
to go to hell
  • Offensive
67 9.5
to sod off
  • Offensive
3 9.9
to go away
709 1.0

Surface Forms

go fuck oneself infinitive
gone fuck oneself past participle
going fuck oneself present participle
goes fuck oneself third person singular

Morphology

go + fuck + oneself

The literal meanings of 'go' + 'fuck' + 'oneself' do suggest a self-directed sexual action, so learners can partially infer that this is a hostile, imperatival insult rather than a neutral instruction. However, the conventionalized pragmatic force (an offensive dismissal equivalent to 'get lost' or 'fuck off') is idiomatic and not fully predictable from the parts; many languages have similar reflexive insults which may help recognition, but the exact usage and strength remain non-compositional for learners.

Etymology

The phrase go fuck yourself comes from using fuck as a shocking insult and adding yourself to tell someone to do it to themselves, which creates a strong, rude image. So it is used as a very angry way to tell someone to 'leave' or to 'show contempt'.