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Idiom

go jump off a building

Meaning

Used to tell someone to go away, or that their request will not be met.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“He told me to go jump off a building when I asked for money.”

“When the rude salesman refused to leave, she told him to go jump off a building.”

“After he demanded that she sacrifice her hard-earned promotion, she firmly told him to go jump off a building.”

Examples

simple

“He told me to go jump off a building when I asked for money.”

contextual

“When the rude salesman refused to leave, she told him to go jump off a building.”

complex

“After he demanded that she sacrifice her hard-earned promotion, she firmly told him to go jump off a building.”

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