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Meanings

1. (colloquial, dated, idiomatic) An expression of contempt or dismissiveness directed at someone, particularly in the case of disagreement.
   • I don't care what he thinks! He can just sit on a tack!
   • "You can sit on a tack!" He wanted to say it bad. 1936, Jack O'Connor, “Easy Mark”, in Fiction Parade and Golden Book Magazine, volume III, number 4, page 459:
   • "You can sit on a tack," Harry fired back, then laughed, and Susan laughed with her. 2020, Rita Mae Brown, Sneaky Pie Brown, Furmidable Foes: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery, Bantam Books, page 216:
   • And if the Devil doesn't like it, he can sit on a tack! 1925, George William Cooke, “Joy In My Heart”:
   • "From now on, so far as I'm concerned, you can sit on a tack!" 1920, E. J. Rath, “The Brains of the Family”, in Munsey's Magazine, volume 71, number 2, page 281:
   • "Go sit on a tack!" she said, angrily.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sit, on, a, tack.