English

Verb

tell someone where to shove it ‎(third-person singular simple present tells someone where to shove it, present participle telling someone where to shove it, simple past and past participle told someone where to shove it)

1. (idiomatic, colloquial, euphemistic, vulgar) To express extreme anger, disgust, or hatred toward someone.
   • 2012, Lou Wakefield, Hot to Trot, ISBN 1444764837:

     They're either telling you where to shove it, if you're winning, or telling you where they'd like to shove it given half the chance.

   • 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, ISBN 9780340921609, page 4:

     But for two pins I'd hand in blank papers and tell school where to shove Pythagoras triangles and Lord of the Flies and their life cycles of worms.

2. Used other than as an idiom.