blow it out your ass! excl.
(orig. US milit.) a general excl. of derision, contempt or dismissal of the previous speaker’s statement.
Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: blow it out of your bag . . . refrain from talking, if you will be so good! | ||
AS XXI:4 Dec. 243: Blow it out your ass. This, used in lieu of ‘nuts,’ etc., or sometimes as an urgent invitation to shut up [...] In print it is softened to ‘Blow it out your footlocker’ or ‘Blow it out your B-Bag.’. | ‘American Army Speech’ in||
(con. 1944) Naked and Dead 33: Red, you can blow it out. | ||
(con. 1943–5) To Hell and Back (1950) 104: ‘Saw them buzzards with my own eyes.’ ‘Oh, blow it.’. | ||
(con. 1948) Flee the Angry Strangers 398: Blow it out your ass, Stoney! | ||
Rumble on the Docks (1955) 137: Aw! Blow it out, Sully. You think —. | ||
in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 137: Tiddly-i-ai; shit, piss & corruption! / Blow it out your barracks bag! | ||
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 168: ‘Blow it out your ass, Prude,’ I said. | ||
(con. 1943) Big War 168: Ah, blow it out, Mungo. | ||
(con. 1950) Band of Brothers 62: ‘So knock it off!’ ‘Blow it out your butt!’. | ||
(con. WWII) Marines! 37: Blow it, wise guy. | ||
(con. 1940s) Wax Boom 276: Blow it out your ass, Lieutenant! | ||
Close Quarters (1987) 257: If you don’t like the way I eat, blow it out yer ass. | ||
Dict. of Invective (1991) 53: Blow it out your barracks bag (or your B-bag or your footlocker) is a common way of cutting off anyone who is spouting a lot of malarkey. (In its original form, from World War II, this expression appears as blow it out your ass.). | ||
White Shoes 75: Go blow it out your ass motherfuckers. | ||
Shadows of Rage 24: Blow it out your ass you stupid son-of-a-bitch! | ||
Valley of Hope 496: Blow it out your ass, Sherrard. I’d sooner give the IRS my Swiss bank account number than give information to you. |