Skip to main content

Go Pound Salt

 

Go Pound Salt 


Watch this on YouTube here - Salt Video - YouTube Video


Meaning:

Go Pound Salt is a saying that means you are annoyed with someone and want them to go away. So you give them a task to go do so they leave. 

“Ugg, go pound salt!”


Origin:

This phrase is not that old and started out a bit differently than what we use today.

The saying started out in the late 1800s as go pound sand. This was primarily used in America. A fun article in The Saint Paul Globe in 1886 has a story that includes go pound sand, it reads.

“I have always umpired baseball from the grandstand... Nothing affords me more pleasure now than to sit on a hard board in the grandstand and devote my time yelling, "Kill him!" "Cut his feet off." "Aw, go pound sand" and other rhetorical gems at the umpire.”

The phrase then changed for a bit to go pound sand in your ears. We then start to see salt being used instead of sand. We see vulgar saying to pound salt in uncomfortable places, one of the most famous being from the farmer Max Yasgur, he is the man that owned the farm in Bethel NY, where the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival was held. It was said that he had an argument with the local public figures about the festival, he said:

"Well, you can all go pound salt up your ass, because come Aug. 15, we're going to have a festival!"


Example:

Today we can still use this phrase, as a way of telling someone to go away, find something else to do, or just leave me alone and example sentence is:

“Charles, why don't you go pound salt instead of bugging me, I am trying to do my homework.”


Watch this on YouTube here - Salt Video - YouTube Video



Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Piece of Cake

  Piece of Cake Watch this on YouTube here - Dessert Video - YouTube Video Meaning: Piece of Cake means A straightforward task that can easily be accomplished. An easy chore, A no-hassle task  “Ahh, piece of cake.” Origin: There is another expression similar to this one that goes ‘as easy as pie.’ -But that's another video - Both sayings have identical meanings—they express ease, but why? It probably doesn’t have to do with the cooking part of these desserts, because baking a cake or pie requires a fair bit of work. First, you have to buy all of the ingredients. Then you have to make it by mixing all the necessary parts together. Then it has to be made up and put in the oven, and you wait for it to cook. Okay, it’s not exactly difficult, but I wouldn’t say it’s easy either. I am not so sure the origin of this idiom comes from the baking of the cake . However, eating the cake once it finishes cooking, now that is a different story that is way ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Bad Egg

  Bad Egg Watch this on YouTube here - Eggs Video - YouTube Video Meaning: Bad Egg is a disappointing or unpleasant person, someone who fails to meet expectations.  “What a Bad Egg!” Origin: The Term Bad Egg has been around since the 1800s; back in the days before food standards were so high, it was necessary to check that you didn’t crack a bad egg in amongst the other ingredients. Cookbooks advised cracking eggs into a separate bowl to be sure. One bad egg could spoil it all, and the phrase was born; now, it refers to one bad person amongst all the other good ones, can spoil the mood. The phrase bad egg first appeared in print in the novel “Captain Priest” by Samuel A Hammett in 1855; it read: Some birds are said to carry brick-bats under their wings to sharpen their bills, and others, stones in maws to whet their appetites, but the Perfect Bird carries a brick in his hat and a stone in his boot. In the language of his class, the Perfect Bird generally turns out to be ...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Wrong Side of the Tracks

  The Wrong Side of the Tracks Watch this on YouTube here - Trains Video - YouTube Video Meaning: The Wrong Side of the Tracks means that someone comes from the poorer side of town, the part of town where people live who are considered of a lower social class.  “Oh, There from the wrong side of the tracks.” Origin: The Wrong Side of the Tracks has been used since the second half of the 1800s. This idiom derives from the idea that railroads often ran through towns, separating the poorer side of town from the wealthier side; as mentioned by Thorne Smith in the Stray Lamb in 1929, it reads: “In most commuting towns, there are always two sides of which tracks serve as a demarcation. There is the right side and the wrong side. Translated into terms of modern American idealism, this means, the rich side and the side that hopes to be rich.” Example: Today, we still use this phrase to express that someone is from an area that sees hard times and that their life is not easy. An ...
Post a Comment
Read more