to go to blazes
- idiom
- Offensive
:
mandar a alguien al diablo (ofensivo)
- He told his annoying neighbor to go to blazes and leave him alone.
Examples
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The cops can go to blazes.
Fiction book (2002) -
When they complained about the service, she simply replied, 'You can all go to blazes!'
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After hearing his rude comments, she snapped back, 'Just go to blazes!'
Synonyms
67
9.5
Tell someone angrily that you do not care about them
38
9.9
Tell someone angrily to go away and that you will not accept their idea
37
8.1
Tell someone to leave in a rude way
37
9.9
A rude way to tell someone to go away and show strong anger
12
9.9
Tell someone to go away immediately in a rude way
12
8.4
To tell someone to go away right away in a rude or angry way
12
7.7
Leave a place quickly, often in a rude way
8
6.5
To make someone leave quickly to show they are not wanted
6
6.7
Tell someone to leave a place firmly
5
6.4
Tell someone to leave a place in a rude or angry way
5
4.1
To make people or animals go away by waving your hand
4
7.9
Make someone leave quickly and forcefully
2
9.9
Tell someone rudely to go away or leave you alone
2
9.9
Tell someone to go away in a rude way
1
9.9
Tell someone to leave in a rude, angry way
1
9.5
To tell someone rudely to leave
1
9.9
Tell someone to go away and leave you alone
1
8.2
To tell someone to go away in a mild, angry way
Rudely say to someone that you want them to go away
Tells someone angrily to go away
Rudely tell someone to go away and stop bothering you
To tell someone angrily to go away and leave you alone
To leave a place quickly, often in a rude way
To tell someone to go away in a rude, angry way
A rude joking way to tell someone to go away without meaning it
To tell someone to go away and stop annoying you
A short spoken word telling someone to go away now
Antonyms
How Dismissive
- Offensive
67
9.5
- Offensive
- UK
709
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The insultal/dismissive meaning 'go away; damn you' cannot be derived from the literal constituents 'go' (move) + 'blaze(s)' (fire/light); the phrase is a conventionalized expletive rather than a compositional destination. This usage is idiomatic (a euphemistic parallel to 'go to hell') and therefore a B1 learner who only knows the parts would not reliably infer the intended sense without prior exposure.
Etymology
Go to blazes may come from an old saying that told someone to go to a place of fire; blazes means burning fire, like 'hell'. That's why the phrase is used to tell someone to 'go away' or to show anger.