Timeline for Captain America said "if you get killed, walk it off!" How to understand "walk it off"?
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| May 17, 2015 at 3:44 | comment | added | Zaqx | This is the correct answer. The accepted answer is not quite right. | |
| May 15, 2015 at 18:42 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | @skyjur: risk aversion is a matter of what your priorities are: what's a long sporting career worth to you compared with instant glory? This changes as the business changes. Intelligence is a matter of whether you can identify the best way to achieve your priorities, whatever they may be. Anyway, something that can be "walked off" is implied to be a minor issue, not even a real injury, just a temporary source of pain. The macho/stupid element comes in assuming that because you're a big tough guy, all injuries are minor to you. This isn't just low risk-aversion, it's wilful ignorance :-) | |
| May 14, 2015 at 10:06 | comment | added | Ski | "less risk averse" is maybe more diplomatic, but to me it really is same as being more stupid. Also IQ is raising with every generation only to contribute to the factor that people used to be more stupid. | |
| May 13, 2015 at 23:35 | comment | added | user66219 | @skyjur: "Less risk averse" is probably a much better characterization than "more stupid". | |
| May 13, 2015 at 10:31 | comment | added | Ski | Practical advice in sports is to lie down even when it might be just a minor injury until doctors arrives and properly inspects you. Probable inclination in sports is usually opposite of lying on the ground, due to adrenaline rush you might not be able to feel serious injury and you might be inclined to get up and continue the race which would only cause more damage and will result in longer recovery time form injury. Maybe "walking it off" stems from times which I didn't live in when people used to be more stupid and more "tough" on sports field. | |
| May 13, 2015 at 2:30 | comment | added | Jeremy Nottingham | "Find a way to endure the pain, because it's not going to stop." | |
| May 12, 2015 at 21:29 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | As my comment beneath the original post suggests, "walk it off" is also used in sports settings to advise players to clear their minds of a blunder they just committed. But you are certainly correct that, in the context of the OP's movie quote, the emphasis is on toughing one's way through an injury. | |
| May 12, 2015 at 18:12 | comment | added | DJMcMayhem | A similar common expression is "Shake it off". | |
| May 12, 2015 at 13:24 | history | answered | phoog | CC BY-SA 3.0 |