pound sand | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)To engage in a simple useful activity, which anyone would know how to perform, other than those who are incapable of any simple activity1871January, Everett Chamberlain, “My Christmas at Salt Lake”, inThe Lakeside Monthly:"Bishop McKillup lives there. He's got only three wives, and they three all put together don’t know enough topound sandwith 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; (idiomatic)To engage in afutileactivity.2010, Eric Blehm,The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan, HarperCollins, published2010,→ISBN,page44:[…]Without men on the ground, we'll bepounding sand."2011, Donald Rumsfeld,Known and Unknown: A Memoir:He told Shelton we needed to "unleash holy hell." “We're not just going topound sand,” he added.; (idiomatic,dismissal)Togo away;get lost;go to hell.All you do is complain. Why don't you gopound sandup your ass and stop bothering the line staff.2003March 15, Christopher Koch, “Showdown at the 6.0 Corral”, inCIO:"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 gopound sand."

Examples:

EN: You don't know enough to pound sand down a rat hole!
ES: LA ESENCIA DE LA DEMOCRACIA ES EL DERECHO DE TODO HOMBRE A SER OÍDO ¡Tú no sabes absolutamente nada!
EN: And I don't think you've got sense enough to pound sand in a rabbit hole.
ES: Y no creo que tengas suficiente sentido común para meter arena en la madriguera de un conejo.
EN: Breck, you pound sand into him, you ' re liable to find grit.
ES: Hay mejores métodos para que hable.
EN: Go pound sand.
ES: Sí. que le vaya bien.
EN: You can go tell him to pound sand for all I care.
ES: Puede decirle que vaya a tragar arena.
EN: Well, you can go pound sand if you don't believe me !
ES: Bueno, pueden irse a la mierda si no me creen!
EN: Then you're one lucky woman, Because my husband can pound sand with a plastic shovel.
ES: Eres una mujer afortunada... porque mi esposo puede triturar arena con una pala plástica.
EN: You move on him, he'll tell you to go pound sand.
ES: siguelo El te diría "que te largaras"
EN: And this is the part where I tell you to pound sand, Detective.
ES: Ahora le digo que se largue, detective.
EN: So he could get bailed out, and Stone, Lakefield Birch could tell us to go pound sand?
ES: ¿Entonces el podría conseguir libertad bajo fianza, y Stone, Lakefield y Birch podrían mandarnos a contar arena?
EN: To get ready for the race i And putot of bike riding 80-pound sand bag and rode it Up the hill.
ES: Para prepararme para la carrera he montado mucho en bicicleta y ponía una bolsa de arena de 36 kilos en una canasta y subía por una colina.
EN: I say Tina Choi can go pound sand.
ES: Yo digo Tina Choi puede ir libras de arena.
EN: If it was just me, my health, my life, I would have told him to pound sand a long time ago.
ES: Si fuera solo yo, mi salud, mi vida, le hubiera dicho hace tiempo que se fuera al cuerno.
EN: You don't break up The Beatles, so go pound sand.
ES: No puede separar a Los Beatles, así que pueden irse.
EN: They told me to pound sand.
ES: Me dijeron que en sueños.

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