A British idiom meaning 'get lost', 'scram', or 'you're not welcome here' — said with varying degrees of heat depending on the situation. It can be a jokey way to tell someone to stop bothering you or a genuinely hostile dismissal. The phrase got an extra layer of meaning in 1981 when politician Norman Tebbit referenced his unemployed father 'getting on his bike' to look for work, turning it into a loaded piece of British political shorthand about self-reliance.
When he tried to get back together after everything he'd done, she just said 'on yer bike, mate.'
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(idiom, UK) go away! scram!.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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