# pound sand

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. To engage in a simple, useless activity that anyone would reasonably know how to perform.
2. To engage in a futile activity.
3. To go away; get lost; go to hell; to waste one's own time (with some other meaningless task) rather than waste the speaker's time with something equally irritating or pointless.

## Etymology
Of 19th-century origin. Used as an example both of an activity so simple that almost anyone could do it and of an activity so pointless that only a fool would do it.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/pound-sand