touch grass

[ tuhch gras ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

idiom

to go outside; enjoy nature (used especially as an exhortation to spend less time on electronic devices):
More people need to go touch grass and get off their devices for a while.
Enough doomscrolling already—touch grass!
So which generation in the group went out to touch grass, and which one is staying tied to the screens?
to engage with reality or real life:
Like many academics who fail to touch grass or experience non-collegiate humans on a daily basis, he refers to “common experience” but has no idea what it is.
Go touch grass and get a credible education that will actually help you in life!

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Word History and Origins

Origin of touch grass¹

First recorded in 2015–20

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Pedro Pascal counts himself among the number who wish the "Harry Potter" author would leave her moldy house and touch grass.

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And, in dealing with this on an everyday level, there’s often talk of the importance of being mindful, and we remind each other to “touch grass.”

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“We should wait and see, but I can say that if Trump really did bless allowing the Tate brothers to come to the US, it would be the primary exhibit that his administration is guided by a hyper-online right that is very out of touch with the real world and needs to touch grass,” he wrote.

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When we “touch grass,” we reintroduce ourselves to what it felt like to be young.

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“I beg people who care about this to go outside and touch grass. Most everyday people don’t have the time or energy to care.”

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