Anyone Actually Use the Phrase: "Go Pound Sand?"

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Occasionally, yes. Good expression without resorting to stupid or profane language.

[Rusty Heap]

six or one half dozen of another..............


...........of other phrases.........but I'd like to know the meaning behind those sand packers?


WWI or WWII trench diggers and sand bags???


I dunno?

[Hydrocket]

Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

six or one half dozen of another..............


...........of other phrases.........but I'd like to know the meaning behind those sand packers?


WWI or WWII trench diggers and sand bags???


I dunno?

The expressions go pound sand and not enough sense to pound sand are American slang from the 19th century. It is a reference menial, and often pointless, labor. From Alexander Smith’s 1857 City Poems:

Peopled now By outcasts, sullen men, bold girls who sat Pounding sand in the sun.

And we have this from the 26 December 1877 Globe of Atchison, Kansas:

We don’t know whether the young man you refer to knows enough to pound sand or not.

The latter phrase often appears in a longer form, not enough sense to pound sand down a rathole. This appears somewhat later. From the 1912 Dialect Notes:

He wouldn’t know enough to pound sand in a rat-hole; so don’t get him.

http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/site/pound_sand/

[JJ 911SC]

Used to use it in the 70's while in the Navy.

Now FU seem the norm...

[DanielDudley]

It's a popular phrase today because you can use it on television and still sound dramatic.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by Hydrocket

I think it's a phrase used by people who also refer to younger people as "whipper-snappers". They also drink Sanka and take Anacin fro headaches.


On a side note, we have a guy at work who says "F*** your hat!" when he's pissed at you. Had not heard that one before...

Get off my Lawn!

[Eric 951]

We use it often in the office, but not directly in covenrsation. i.e. "if they think they are going to add that to the contract without compensation, they can go pound sand"

[romad]

yes