get lost

get lost idiom
Go away, as in Get lost, we don't want you around. This rather rude slangy imperative dates from the 1940s.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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