leave; get out of here; go back where you came from
Etymology:
- 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.
Submitted on December 10, 2023
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