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单词 to get back at
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to get back at (also now less commonly on)
3. intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). to get back at (also now less commonly on): to retort or retaliate upon.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > execute (vengeance) [verb (transitive)] > pay (a person) back
to quit or yield (one) his whilec1400
rewardc1400
pay?c1450
requite1534
to pay back1655
to pay off1699
to pay out1849
to get back at (also now less commonly on)1886
1886 J. A. Logan Great Conspiracy 556 Washburne..got back at this part of Mr. Voorhees's speech rather neatly.
1894 Washington Post 2 Mar. 4/6 (heading) Watterson gets back on a critic.
1906 Springfield Weekly Republican 14 June 11 If the President had not been vindictively anxious to ‘get back’ at the packers, he could have accomplished his end effectively.
1907 Daily Chron. 17 Oct. 3/3 You cannot afford to be rude to a journalist. Some day he will get back on you.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves ix. 90 A lesser man might easily have snatched at the chance of getting back at me a bit by loosing Cyril into by bedchamber.
1972 Guardian 11 Feb. 1/6 For most of question time..Mr Thorpe tried to get back at the..Prime Minister.
1990 A. Duff Once were Warriors (1995) viii. 95 Jake laughingly got back on Beth for earlier chiding him for his language.
2002 J. McGahern That they may face Rising Sun (2003) 34 Let nobody try to best the guards or the doctors or teachers. They have their own ways of getting back at you.
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