- Have you ever wanted to tell someone to go away?
If so, I am going to teach you
several useful ways that you can do just that.
This is Interactive English, which
is all about helping you guys practice
and improve your English skills.
And what I want to talk to you about today
is something that is actually very useful.
I want to talk to you about different ways
that you can tell somebody to go away.
You don't want this person around,
you don't want to talk to this person anymore,
so you just want them to go away,
and I'm going to talk to you about several
polite ways to do that, and then
some impolite ways to do that as well.
I'll also give you some examples
so you can see how the expression is used in context.
So let's begin with polite; it's better
just to start with polite, and then
we'll work our way to being rude and mean.
But if you want to be polite and
tell someone to go away, and this
applies to anyone; it doesn't matter who,
you can just ask them, "would you please leave?"
So you're asking them a question,
you're using "please" to be a little nice
and say you know, would you please leave?
You want this person -- (laughing)
you just want them to go away!
You don't want them around anymore,
so it's polite; you could say, "would you please leave?"
- Would you please leave this room right now?
I'm not even gonna talk to you.
- Another polite way to tell someone to go away
is just to say, "you know, I think it's time for you to go."
And this is something that you might hear at a party.
Say somebody's getting out of hand,
and you don't want this person around anymore,
you want them to go away, but you don't
want to be very rude, so you might tell them,
"I think it's time for you to go."
That way, this person will get the hint;
they will understand, alright,
yeah, this person wants me to go away.
- Chris, I... I think it's time for you to go.
- I think it's time for you to go.
- Alright, now I think it's time for you to go.
- Might be time for you to go.
- It's definitely not time for you to go
because I have some more great expressions,
and the next two that I want to talk
to you about are more so for family and friends.
So these are for people that you're a little closer to.
And then you could say to them,
"could you please give me some space?"
Maybe you're having a fight, and you don't want
to talk to them anymore, and you want them
to go away, you could just ask them,
"could you please give me some space?"
This is something I think couples might say
to each other all the time, especially after a fight,
and (laughing) you don't want to be around
the other person, and you would ask them,
"could you please give me some space?"
- Can you give me some space, okay?
- Yeah, as Bernadette would say, give me some space.
- Will wanted me to give him some space.
- Something else that you could tell them,
again, it's for family and friends,
you might just say, "I just need to be alone."
And when somebody hears that, then they say okay,
they need to be alone; that means that I need to go away.
So you could tell your family, your friends,
I just need to be alone right now,
and that is a polite way of telling this person to go away.
- I think I just need to be alone.
- I think right now, I just need to be alone for a while.
- I just need to be alone right now.
- I need to be alone for a while.
- So, you can be polite and just
tell them, I just need a moment alone.
Could you please give me some space?
Now if we want to start moving
towards being more impolite, there are
two ways that you could be condescending.
And if you don't know what condescending means,
it's a way of talking to somebody that
you feel superior to this person.
You are above this person, and you're
talking down to them, and when you're
doing this, you are being condescending.
And a way that you can be condescending
and tell somebody to go away is, "run along".
If somebody says run along, they're telling
you to go away, and yeah, it's just rude.
It's condescending, it's what adults
might say to other kids, they don't want them around.
They want them to go away, and they
might just say, okay, run along; run along.
We don't need you here anymore; run along.
- Okay, run along now, you impossible child.
- You could also say this to other adults,
but it's offensive; if somebody told me, okay, we don't
need you; run along, I would be pissed off!
- Run along; go make yourself interesting.
- Run along and play with your little toys, hmmm?
- Another condescending way to tell
somebody to go away is just skidaddle.
It's just an expression, and it means the same as run along,
and again, I think more of adults
talking to children when they say skidaddle.
somebody to run along, and because
of that, I don't think it's as offensive, either,
but still, those are two condescending
ways to tell somebody to go away.
- You know, Mom and Dad, why don't
you skidaddle for a sec, and let
- So now, for the moment you've
probably been waiting for, (laughs)
which are the rude expressions.
The impolite ways to tell someone to go away.
These are, I think they're pretty common.
These are phrases that you would hear
when watching TV or movies, probably
even gonna hear them on the street.
Hopefully, people aren't talking to you when they say this,
but just so you know what they are,
and what they mean, and you know,
in case you need to use them, it's useful.
So the first one is, just get lost!
I think this is a very common one.
If you want someone to go away,
you can just look at them and say, get lost!
Perhaps this person's bothering you.
They're up in your face, and you say
I don't want you here anymore; get lost!
- Get lost!
- Get lost!
- I didn't steal anything from you!
- Get lost!
- The next expression is beat it!
Alright, you don't need to be here.
I want you to go away, beat it!
(laughing)
And maybe you might even think
of the famous song by Michael Jackson, "Beat It".
Yeah, Michael Jackson had it right.
He wanted those people to go away.
- Beat it!
- Beat it!
- Beat it.
- Another great way to tell somebody to go away
is just one word, and that is scram!
Doesn't matter if it's somebody
you know, or if it's somebody you don't know,
if you want them to go away, you can just say, scram!
You could even start throwing some of these together.
Then they'll really get the hint that
- Scram!
- Another expression is take a hike!
You can just tell the person, hey, you know, take a hike!
Really try to capture that emphasis
Because it just doesn't mean the same
if you're like, hey, you know, take a hike.
That person might just laugh at you,
so you want to be mean; take a hike!
- Take a hike!
- Here; take a hike, toots!
- Take a hike, tiny.
- We can also tell someone to get the hell out of here!
I don't want you around; go away!
(laughing)
This is, yeah, that's probably
one of my favorites; I probably
use this maybe a little more than
some of the other ones, probably
get lost and you know, get the hell out of here!
Get the hell out of here; I don't want you around!
Notice you end up adding "the hell",
because you could just say get out of here;
that's perfectly fine, but no, no, no, no, no;
you want to be a little more impolite about it.
You want to say, "get the hell out of here!"
- Then, we have another expression
which we can lace with a little profanity,
and you could just tell somebody,
you know, leave me the (beep) alone.
I don't want, I don't want you around.
I want you to go away, and I want you
This is also a common one that you might hear people say,
and they add that profanity, they add it
to give emphasis, to make it even that
much stronger, that much more impolite.
- That's it; now leave me the (beep) alone.
- And those expressions, those are all
perfect for American English, but
if we want to throw in some British English,
you could also tell somebody to bugger off.
That is British English, telling somebody
to go away, just say bugger off!
So if you're traveling in the UK,
and you want somebody to go away,
- Bugger off!
- Bugger off!
- Now, bugger off!
- If you say this when you're in the US,
I don't know if they'll understand you,
maybe they will, based on the context,
but it's better to tell somebody in the US
to scram, beat it, get the hell out of here,
Those are all excellent ways that
you can tell somebody to go away.
So depending on whether you want
to be polite or impolite, you can use those expressions,
and I hope you use them wisely.
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Thank you so much for watching,
I... look, please, will you just give me some space?
Alright, you... you know, run along!
What are you still doing here?
Alright, you're starting to, you're starting
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