Go Pound Salt

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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.”

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