to shove it
38
9.9
- phrasal verb
- /ʃʌv ɪt/
- Offensive
:
mandar a la mierda
- Take your phony self-righteousness and shove it back where it came from.
- tell him to shove it
- Just shove it
- said 'shove it'
I don't know, take this job and shove it.
- I don't know, take this job and shove it.
- His response to the SAC was take your deal and shove it, because guess what your deal says?
Examples
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- I told him to shove it.
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Take your tea and shove it.
Blog text (7) -
- Shove it right back at ya!
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Please explain to me why you told him to take that job and shove it?
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His response to the SAC was take your deal and shove it, because guess what your deal says?
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- Why don't you shove it?
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Time to stand up and tell them to shove it where the sun doesn't shine.
Blog text (11) -
You tell my superiors at the office, who can give me raises and promotions... ...that if they don't like my answer, they can go take it and shove it up their ass.
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I told him to shove it when he suggested I quit my job.
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She was angry and advised him to just shove it when he criticized her work.
Synonyms
104
9.9
Leave or tell someone to leave in a rude way
49
9.9
To tell someone rudely that you do not care about their opinion or order
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
7.7
Leave a place quickly, often in a rude way
8
9.9
Tell someone in a rude way to go away or warn they will be badly embarrassed
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
Rude words used to tell someone to go away and show anger
1
9.9
A very rude way to tell someone you strongly refuse their idea or order
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
A rude phrase telling someone you refuse their request and they should go away
A rude way to tell someone to go away without the real swear word
To tell someone angrily to go away and leave you alone
Rudely tell someone to go away and stop bothering you
A rude joking way to tell someone to go away without meaning it
To tell someone to go away and stop annoying you
To leave a place quickly, often in a rude way
To leave someone alone when you bother them
Angrily tell someone to go away
A strong way to refuse a suggestion or request
Antonyms
How Rude
- Offensive
104
9.9
- Offensive
3
9.9
- Offensive
38
9.9
- Informal
4
8.9
709
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
shove + it
The dismissive meaning of 'shove it' (an angry 'go away' or rejection) is not transparently derivable from 'shove' (to push) + 'it' (a pronoun); the imperative is used idiomatically to tell someone off rather than to order a literal push. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words would likely interpret it literally or be unsure, so the phrase is language-specific and unpredictable.
Etymology
The phrase shove it comes from the simple image of pushing something hard, with shove meaning a strong push and it the thing you push, as if you want to get rid of it quickly. So people use that rude image to tell someone 'go away' or to show they say 'no' to an offer or idea.