English Explanatory Dictionary

pound sand

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To engage in a simple, useless activity that anyone would reasonably know how to perform.
To engage in a futile activity.
To go away; get lost; go to hell; to waste one's own time (with some other meaningless task) rather than waste the speaker's time with something equally irritating or pointless.

Pronunciation

En-au-pound sand.ogg

Word forms

pound sand pounds sand pounding sand pounded sand

Etymology

Of 19th-century origin. Used as an example both of an activity so simple that almost anyone could do it and of an activity so pointless that only a fool would do it.

Synonyms

get blood out of a stone piss up a rope pound dirt pound salt pound sand into a rathole get lost go fly a kite take a hike fuck off

Related words

enough sense to pound sand into a rathole

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