go pound salt

go pound salt

To go and engage in pointless, menial efforts or labor. Used as an imperative to express disdain, contempt, or dismissal. A variant of the more common expression "go pound sand." I can't believe Sam told his teacher to go pound salt. Where does that kid get such attitude? Charles, why don't you go pound salt instead of coming around here hassling me about my business?
See also: go, pound, salt
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • pound salt
  • go pound sand
  • pound sand
  • take the Michael (out of someone or something)
  • take the mike (out of someone or something)
  • hewers of wood and drawers of water
  • milk the ram
  • milk the bull
  • nicca
  • nikka
References in periodicals archive
"I told them to go pound salt because I didn't need a hydro service that bad," Jolliffe says.