get thee behind me
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English
Etymology
Originally uttered by Christ in the King James Bible, Matthew 16:23: “get thee behind me, Satan”; Latin vāde retrō, Satanā; Ancient Greek ὕπαγε ὀπίσω μου, Σατανᾶ (húpage opísō mou, Satanâ).
Pronunciation
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Phrase
- (idiomatic) Do not tempt or torment me; I reject you, your statements, or your beliefs.
- 1824, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 16, in Redgauntlet:
- “Jesu Maria!” exclaimed the younger. “Oh, fie, Sister Seraphina! Fie, fie!--VADE RETRO--get thee behind me!”
- 1904, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 4, in Tommy and Co.:
- Peter most assuredly would have risen in his wrath, would have said to his distinguished-looking temptress, "Get thee behind me, Miss Ramsbotham."
- 2024 October 15, Tony Karon, “Postmodern Papacy?”, in Time, archived from the original on 8 March 2016:
- Get thee behind me, Derrida! Skeptical postmodernists may have reduced the certainties of Western intellectual life to a pile of gaudy plastic tchotchkes, but Pope John Paul II is fighting back.