Meaning of pound sand | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To engage in a simple, useless activity that anyone would reasonably know how to perform.
   idiomatic, informal
2. To engage in a futile activity.
   idiomatic, informal
3. 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.
   derogatory, idiomatic, slang

Examples

“"Bishop McKillup lives there. He's got only three wives, and they three all put together don’t know enough to pound sand with a mallet, with a receipt on the handle." For which striking symbol of imbecility I should have given Jake a good deal of credit, if I had not heard him using it several times before as a regular stock expression”

“[…] Without men on the ground, we'll be pounding sand."”

“He told Shelton we needed to "unleash holy hell." “We're not just going to pound sand,” he added.”

“All you do is complain. Why don't you go pound sand up your ass and stop bothering the line staff.”

“"The price to us was going to be $3 million, and we had four months to pay before the Licensing 6.0 deadline. We told Microsoft to go pound sand."”

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