Blow the march

To blow someone 's march is an expression in the German language.

By this she means bringing indolent or unruly people to reason or chasing them away with mostly violent verbal means . However, if the term is related to himself by a person ( who can give me the M ... ), an analogy to the Götz quote is usually intended (mentally omitting the first letter of Marsch) .

The term originally comes from the language of soldiers. To blow the march was a trumpet signal to collect before the troops left. Anyone who did not follow him had to face severe consequences.

The term can be found in literature since the beginning of the 19th century.