shut up and color

references the popular kindergarten past-time involving line art and various multicolored crayons, also known as “coloring”. coloring often results in an all-consuming, zombie-like preoccupation of the partic-p-nt with the activity at hand and a subsequent obliviousness to the rest of the world as he/she bravely endeavors to stay inside the lines.

1.) a streamlined and highly economical verbal jab that efficiently informs the receiving end to—in the following order—(a) step the f-ck off, (b) shut the h-ll up and (c) mind their own godd-mn business without actually having to use any profanity oneself.

as found for virtually every 4 word command, one may also come across “suac,” or the acronym version of the phrase.

2.) may also be used as a modifier to describe a nature, behavior or policy of willful ignorance; to turn a blind eye to something/someone.
1-a.) “that insincere meddlesome busybody at the office came up to me by the water cooler today and started talking sh-t about the new temp. i knew she was making all of it up and i was so hungover and tired of her constant gossiping that i was about to tell the b-tch to f-ck off and die but then i saw that the department manager within earshot so i told her to go shut up and color instead.”

1-b.) “hey what’s behind that door that says restricted: for authorized personnel only anyways?”

“nothing. go shut up and color.”

2-a) “even though he knows all about the ceo embezzlement, the vice chairman’s inclinations toward s-xual har-ssment of female employees and the chief financial officer’s insider trading habits, david’s sycophantic, shut up and color att-tude at work has gotten him far up the corporate ladder and the owner’s -sses.”