https://www.proz.com/kudoz/english/idioms-maxims-sayings/785142-no-sand-will-be-kicked-on-the-beach.html
This site uses cookies. Some of these cookies are essential to the operation of the site, while others help to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used. For more information, please see the ProZ.com privacy policy.
Cookie settings
sand used to make designs on glass
on purchase

Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

no sand will be kicked on the beach

English answer:

to have sand kicked in your face

Added to glossary by jerrie
Aug 12, 2004 17:48
19 yrs ago
English term

no sand will be kicked on the beach

English Marketing Idioms / Maxims / Sayings American slang
Take exercise and your skin will glow, not look like it’s been dusted with flour. Your eyes will be bright and maybe you'll start looking so ripped that a modelling career will beckon. Plus: women will notice you and ***no sand will be kicked on the beach.****


many thanks in advance
Responses
4 +1 to have sand kicked in your face
4 +10 you will not be humiliated
4 will not be threatened (with violence)
4 -1 like 'sand kicked in face'

Responses

+1
7 mins
Selected

to have sand kicked in your face

I think the expression is 'to have sand kicked in your face'...
It is a macho vs weedy guy thing.
The idea being that the macho guys are the kings of the beach, tear around, in and out of the sea, posing, prancing etc, whilst the weedy guys sit looking-on, on the outside, and just get the sand kicked in their face ;-(

Link kinda gives context
hth

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 9 mins (2004-08-12 17:57:51 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Tired of getting sand kicked in your face? Bulk up with this Multi-Function Weight Bench with BONUS Curl Bar!

Click image to enlarge...
98-lb. weaklings, rejoice! Help is here in the form of this Multi-Function Weight Bench from Impex®. Pump up your arms, chest, shoulders, back and legs with all the most popular exercises. Heck , with a little discipline, you\'ll be the one kicking sand around! But you would never do that, you\'re too nice!

--------------------------------------

.... so \'you\'ll\' be the one kicking the sand!!!
Reference:

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=78144

Peer comment(s):
agree Richard Benham : back in the '60s there was an ad that went "I used to be a 7-stone weakling...and some 14-stone bully kicked sand in my face..." 7 stone, BTW, is 98 lb.//about 445.kg (the stone/lb was exact, oof course.)
3 hrs
There's a Kliban cartoon "He's king of the beach now that he's got big balls...." US/UK conversions always good to know - what's that in kilos ;-))
neutral airmailrpl : 98 lb.is not about 445.kg - it is 45.545 Kilograms
2 days 11 hrs
Something went wrong...
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "many thanks to ALL of you..... All of you helped me a lot in understanding the idea and translating the sentence into my mother language it's a pity I cannot choose all answers baci Laura"
+10
3 mins

you will not be humiliated

this is a guy thing

Veendam : Fitness & Spa - 7 Blue Seas
Email To A Friend. Ocean Spa Gymnasium. Tired of that tough guy who kicked sand in your face at that last port of call? Head over to the Ocean Spa Gymnasium. ...
www.7blueseas.com/cruiselines/ship.asp?id=15&page=4 - 35k -

#2314-Feature: Shaping Up
... Charles Atlas. If you were at the beach with your girlfriend and a lifeguard kicked sand in your face and stole her away, what would you do? ...
www.cde.psu.edu/edcomm/witnweb/2314/default.html
Peer comment(s):
agree Aisha Maniar : :-)
2 mins
hi Aisha :-)
agree Nanny Wintjens
13 mins
thanks NW :-)
agree Nazim Aziz Gokdemir : Very popular theme with cartoonist Sergio Aragones/MAD Magazine
14 mins
thanks Nazim!
agree eccotraduttrice : yup!
52 mins
thanks Karena!
agree Andy Watkinson
1 hr
thanks andy!
agree jccantrell : Charles Atlas and the famous 98-lb. weakling!
1 hr
Hi JC :-)
agree Mark Nathan
3 hrs
agree Asghar Bhatti
4 hrs
agree Rajan Chopra
8 hrs
agree NancyLynn : Charles Atlas ads in Archie comics when I was a kid ;-)
19 hrs
Something went wrong...
-1
4 mins

like 'sand kicked in face'

Imagine you are walking down the beach, and an attractive member of the opposite (or same, depending on persuasion) sex walks past and kicks sand at you....

That would make me feel rather unattractive - and you?
Peer comment(s):
disagree Andy Watkinson : "the opposite (or same, depending on persuasion) sex "? This is a Charles Atlas moment. :-)
1 hr
Something went wrong...
14 hrs

will not be threatened (with violence)

no sand will be kicked on the beach
Something went wrong...