[Idiom] go pound salt

#1 01-Jan-2009, 00:58

Would like to see this included. I don't know its meaning.

**Ouisch** · #2 01-Jan-2009, 07:52

It's an AmE idiom that means "go away, don't bother me."

When a panhandler approached me on the street and asked if I had any spare change, I told him to go pound salt.

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