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crawl back under your rock

leave; get out of here; go back where you came from

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  • Originally came from The Bible: Isaiah 51:1 "Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged."
  • Later the common phrase became:"crawl back under the rock from whence you came." Now a common version is: "crawl back under your rock."
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Jenny was with her friends. Her little brother was running around them, bothering them. Jenny told her little brother to go crawl back under his rock.

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Submitted on December 10, 2023

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