to take a hike
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8.1
- idiom
- Informal
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largarse
- The courts will tell them to take a hike.
- tell someone to take a hike
- go take a hike
- say 'take a hike'
You can, I know that for a personal fact, Go take a hike and watch what happens.
- You can, I know that for a personal fact, Go take a hike and watch what happens.
- That would definitely, I mean, if enough parents say, take a hike to the administrators at any school, that policy is done.
Examples
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Hey, why don't you take a hike?
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Bernie, I need you to take a hike.
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But I can tell them to take a hike.
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I tell him to take a hike.
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Now, you take a hike.
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"Tell your friend to take a hike."
Fiction book (1990) -
The super committee and all members of Congress need to take a hike.
Blog text (25) -
But you did interfere after we told you to take a hike.
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Why don't you take a hike, huh?
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If you're not interested in contributing to the discussion, you can take a hike.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To go away from a place, person, or group
∞
1.0
Leave a place or situation
∞
3.0
Leave a place quickly or suddenly
709
1.0
To leave a place or person and go somewhere else
632
3.5
Leave a person, place, or situation without taking part anymore
273
3.2
To leave a place quickly, often to travel somewhere else
176
1.3
To leave a place to start a journey
175
8.4
To leave a place quickly or suddenly
125
1.0
To go out of a place or leave a situation
78
2.0
Leave a place suddenly, often to avoid someone or something
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6.3
Go away suddenly without warning or explanation
37
3.5
To leave a place suddenly to show you are angry or upset
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6.8
Leave a place or start a journey
12
7.7
Leave a place quickly, often in a rude way
5
3.9
Say goodbye to people and go away from a place politely
4
7.9
Make someone leave quickly and forcefully
1
9.9
To leave a place quickly because you do not want to be there
1
7.9
To leave a place quickly, often without saying goodbye
1
9.5
To tell someone rudely to leave
Leave a place quickly because you are not welcome
To leave a place quickly, often in a rude way
To leave a place suddenly, usually to go somewhere else
To tell someone to go away in a rude, angry way
Angrily tell someone to go away
To leave a place quickly, often to avoid trouble
Antonyms
How Dismissive
- Offensive
67
9.5
- UK
- Informal
37
8.1
709
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
take + a + hike
The literal combination of 'take' + 'a' + 'hike' readily yields 'go for a walk', so a B1 learner who knows the constituents could infer a basic sense of leaving. However, the common colloquial/useful meaning 'go away' or the forceful imperative 'get lost' is a pragmatic extension that is not fully predictable from the parts, requiring prior exposure for the negative/abrupt nuance.
Etymology
Take a hike comes from a plain picture: telling someone to take a hike means to put on their shoes and go for a long walk away from you. One popular idea is that people used this blunt image of walking off to tell someone to 'go away', so the phrase now means to leave, often in a forceful way.