touch grass

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touch grass (third-person singular simple present touches grass, present participle touching grass, simple past and past participle touched grass)

  1. (Internet slang) To spend time outside. An insult suggesting that a person posting online is out of touch with reality and should spend time away from the internet.
    • 2022 January 9, Baxter, “Send them back to school!!”, in or.politics, Usenet:
      Lifeboat isn’t real life. Go outside. Touch grass. Or seaweed;
      whatever’s down there.
    • 2022 April 24, blinking...@gmail.com, “The brain broth boilith over”, in alt.alt, Usenet:
      in the words of a random anon - go touch grass. im[sic] done being patient with you and im[sic] done being nice to you. is this what you fucking wanted? to lie and slander and generally be a cunt until i snapped?
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see touch, grass.
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