pound sand (English, verb)
expansion: pound sand (third-person singular simple present pounds sand, present participle pounding sand, simple past and past participle pounded sand)
Senses:
glosses: To engage in a simple useful activity, which anyone would know how to perform, other than those who are incapable of any simple activity.
tags: idiomatic
glosses: To engage in a futile activity.
tags: idiomatic
qualifier: dismissal
glosses: To go away; get lost; go to hell; To waste one's own time (with some other meaningless task) rather than waste the speaker's time with something equally irritating or pointless.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: pounds sand
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pounding sand
tags: participle
present
form: pounded sand
tags: participle
past
form: pounded sand
tags: past
form: pound dirt
tags: alternative
form: pound salt
tags: alternative
form: pound sand into a rathole
tags: alternative