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to take a flying leap

to take a flying leap

1 9.5
To tell someone rudely to leave
  • idiom
  • Offensive
: irse a la mierda
  • LOL, tell the city to take a flying leap!

Examples

  • Why not take a flying leap around here?

  • After our argument, she told me to take a flying leap and walked away.

  • When I asked for a raise, my boss said I could take a flying leap.

  • He was so upset with the new rules that he told the committee to take a flying leap.

Synonyms

to take a hike
vsto take a flying leap
  • Informal
36 8.1

Tell someone to leave in a rude way

is similarly forceful but often more colorful or contemptuous
to shove it
vsto take a flying leap
  • Offensive
31 9.9

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

is similarly rude but less explicitly confrontational or physical
to shove off
vsto take a flying leap
  • Informal
17 7.7

Leave a place quickly, often in a rude way

is rude too but frequently carries a sharper tone of contempt
to buzz off
vsto take a flying leap
  • Offensive
14 8.4

To tell someone to go away right away in a rude or angry way

is rude as well but can feel slightly more colorful or scornful
to bugger off
vsto take a flying leap
  • Offensive
12 9.9

Tell someone to go away immediately in a rude way

is rude as well but lacks the same regional coarse flavour
to get bent
vsto take a flying leap
  • Offensive
4 9.9

Tell someone to leave in a rude, angry way

is rude too but uses less coarse language overall
to pound sand
vsto take a flying leap
  • Offensive
2 9.9

Tell someone to go away in a rude way

is rude too but often focuses on dismissal rather than refusal of requests
to get stuffed
vsto take a flying leap
  • Offensive
2 9.9

Tell someone rudely to go away or leave you alone

is rude too but may sound slightly less confrontational
to kick rocks
vsto take a flying leap
  • Offensive
2 9.9

Tell someone to go away and leave you alone

is similarly dismissive but usually uses different colloquial imagery
to go to heck
vsto take a flying leap
  • Informal
1 8.2

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

is ruder and more openly insulting than this milder form
to tell someone where to shove it
vsto take a flying leap
  • Offensive
1 9.9

Rudely say to someone that you want them to go away

is rude but less vulgar and less directly violent in tone
go jump in the lake
vsto take a flying leap
  • Offensive
1 9.1

Rudely tell someone to go away and stop bothering you

is rude too but typically less graphically phrased
go jump off a cliff
vsto take a flying leap
  • Offensive
1 9.9

To tell someone angrily to go away and leave you alone

is rude but avoids such extreme violent imagery
to go to blazes
vsto take a flying leap
  • Offensive
1 9.9

Angrily tell someone to go away

is rude too but often relies on dismissive sarcasm rather than anger
to shove along
vsto take a flying leap
  • Informal
1 8.1

To leave a place quickly, often in a rude way

is similarly rude but often more idiomatic and scornful
go jump off a building
vsto take a flying leap
  • Offensive
1 9.9

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

is rude without resorting to sarcastic violent suggestions
take a long walk on a short pier
vsto take a flying leap
  • Offensive
1 9.9

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

is rude as well but less sarcastically elaborate
to go climb a tree
vsto take a flying leap
  • Informal
9.8

To tell someone to go away and stop annoying you

is ruder and more directly dismissive than that playful phrasing

Antonyms

to stay
∞ 1.0

To remain in one place and not leave

to come back
∞ 1.3

To return to how it was before

How Dismissive

to go to hell
  • Offensive
261 9.5
to take a flying leap
  • Offensive
1 9.5
to take a hike
  • Informal
36 8.1
to go away
926 1.0

Surface Forms

take a flying leap infinitive

Morphology

take + a + flying + leap

The literal constituents ('take' + 'flying' + 'leap') transparently describe making a dramatic jump, so a learner could guess a physical action. However, the phrase is used idiomatically as a rude dismissal and the pragmatic force (telling someone to go away) and its rudeness are not fully predictable from the parts; this pragmatic shift is language-specific and may be missed by a B1 learner.

Etymology

Take a flying leap may come from a clear picture of someone running and making a big, fast jump—a take of a flying leap—to put distance between them and a situation. So today it is used to sharply tell someone to 'go away' or 'leave'.