[Idiom] go and take a long walk on a shore

[chance22]

i don't quite get the slang "Go and take a long walk on a shore". Could you explain it to me?

 

[Rover_KE]

Where have you read this? Who wrote it? In what context?

 

[chance22]

Where have you read this? Who wrote it? In what context?

In excercise where I'm supposed to identify the slang in the expression but without context.

 

[Rover_KE]

In an exercise where I'm supposed to identify the slang in the expression but without context.

What is the source of the exercise? I see no slang.

 

[JMurray]

Sometimes "taking a long walk on a beach/shore" describes what's supposed to be a romantic or ideal leisure activity. It may be regarded as something of a cliché, but it's not slang.

 

[jutfrank]

Are you sure you understand what 'slang' is?

 

[chance22]

That's what confused me. I didn't see the slang either.

 

[chance22]

What is the source of the exercise? I see no slang.

In a book entitled Modern English Rhetoric.

 

[Rover_KE]

And the author is ...?

 

[chance22]

And the author is ...?

A famous Chinese professor who was once on the list of Cambridge Who's Who. But i don't know about his English name.

 

[Rover_KE]

Apparently he doesn't know what slang is.

 

[Tdol]

It is presumably a faux polite way of telling someone to get lost or go away. It isn't standard slang, but such formulations are not uncommon. You can tell people to take a walk off a short pier or to jump in the lake, which is more common.

 

[Skrej]

. You can tell people to take a walk off a short pier .

I've heard it as a long walk off a short pier (or 'plank' in some pirate films), which is sort of close to the original post.

I can't help but wonder if somebody simply didn't hear (or write) the latter part of the expression.