informal an impolite way of telling someone to go away or that you will not give them something they want.
'Jim wants to borrow your new CD.' 'Tell him to take a running jump.'
take a running jump!
⇨ take a running jump!; take a running jump at yourself!used as a contemptuous expression of dismissal UK, 1933
idiomtake a running jump!(also go take a running jump! AmE)spoken a rude expression used in order to tell someone to go away and stop annoying you:Just go take a running jump - you don't know anything about the subject. "My husband won't let me wear red." "You ought to tell your husband to take a running jump."