touch grass
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Internet, Derogatory To spend time outside, off of the Internet. Used in the imperative to suggest that someone is out of touch with reality, and should gain some real-world perspective.
Often dismissal
- Maybe their idle and petty chatter wouldn't devastate you if you would touch grass a bit more often.
- Lifeboat isn't real life. Go outside. Touch grass. Or seaweed; whatever's down there.2022 January 9, Baxter, “Send them back to school!!”, in or.politics (Usenet):
2 more examples
- in the words of a random anon - go touch grass. im done being patient with you and im done being nice to you. is this what you fucking wanted? to lie and slander and generally be a cunt until i snapped?2022 April 24, plateshutoverlock, “The brain broth boilith over”, in alt.alt (Usenet):
- To an outsider, the meticulous, sometimes combative arguments about, say, moving a button five pixels to the left seem pointless. I beg of thee, please, touch grass! But to many, Wikipedia is sort of a home on the internet. And people want to live somewhere nice.2023 January 18, Annie Rauwerda, “Wikipedia's Redesign Is Barely Noticeable. That's the Point.”, in Slate, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2023:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see touch, grass.
- Q: Can't you read?! My sign says to stay off the lawn! A: I didn't touch your grass, pal.
- Related terms
- out of touch, in touch, attention economy, doomscrolling, human fracking, ragebait, smartphone zombie, take a hike