单词 | to get it |
释义 | > as lemmasto get it d. to get it. extracted from getv. (a) (i) colloquial. To receive a punishment, scolding, or beating; to ‘catch it’. Also: to receive a blow, to be hit.to get it hot: see hot adj. and n.1 Phrases 5. to get it in the neck: see neck n.1 Phrases 2b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [verb (intransitive)] > receive punishment > be punished severely to buy the bargain dear1352 smart1534 sweata1625 to nap it1699 to get it1805 to catch or get Jesse1839 to get (also catch, take) it in the neck1881 to get beans1893 to get (also do) the book1928 1805 G. Colman Who wants Guinea? iv. ii. 61 Henry. Can he ever have the heart to beat you? Boy. Never very hard when mother's by; for then he'd get it himself. 1841 J. H. Ingraham Quadroone I. xvi. 207 Slain! Bullets and baggenets! Gobin ha' got it! I have bled a barrel and a bucket full. I haven't two pints o' pure red blood left! 1863 J. Lester Rosedale i. in America's Lost Plays (1940) IV. 10 Ell. Did you think you were going to get it? Miles. No, but damn me—you shall get it! 1872 Figaro 22 June 389/1 The German Emperor, Bismarck, and Earl Granville also ‘got’ it, but not quite so hotly. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 14 Jan. 4/3 You will get it hot before you are done. 1938 ‘E. Queen’ Devil to Pay xx. 276 Now she'll get it—that sawed-off, pinky little wurst! 1982 M. Piercy Braided Lives i. 13 I'll get it for being late. 2011 S. Twain From this Moment on (2012) iv. 61 When things snowballed to where it became clear that my mother was about to really get it, I ran up behind my dad with a chair in both hands and smashed it across his back. (ii) colloquial (originally U.S.). To be fatally injured, to be killed; to be shot. ΚΠ 1844 Spirit of Times 18 May 139/1 Bang ! Oh, dam you ! You've got it ! I know you is!..Yes, thar's blood on the snow ! 1845 ‘C. Winterfield’ Adventures on Frontier Texas & Mexico in Amer. Rev. 2 372 The warrior reeled..and..pitched head foremost from his horse. ‘That fellow's got it, anyhow!’ 1899 E. Marshall Story Rough Riders x. 196 Once in a while one of them would ‘get it’. 1917 A. G. Empey Over Top v. 35 Always remember that if you are going to get it, you'll get it, so never worry. 1943 W. Simmons Joe Foss Flying Marine x. 100 Poor old Joe finally got it... He's shark bait. 1997 A. Frewin London Blues i. i. 31 Two days after Jack Kennedy got it, Oswald got it too! (b) colloquial (ironic). I wish you may get it, also don't you wish you may get it?, and variants: implying the speaker's doubt of, or lack of desire for, another's success. ΚΠ 1824 Morning Chron. 13 Oct. When informed that it [sc. a gold pin] was six shillings and sixpence, he said ‘I wish you may get it,’ and ran out of the shop with one of them. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 42 An ‘I wish you may get it’ sort of expression in his eye. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxvi. 274 ‘But the plaintiff must get it,’ resumed Mrs. Cluppins... ‘Vell,’ said Sam... ‘All I can say is, that I vish you may get it.’ 1842 R. H. Barham Lay St. Aloys in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 245 Ah, ha! my good friend!—don't you wish you may get it? 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xiii. 111 ‘There's one of the greatest men in the kingdom wants some.’ ‘Does he?’ growled the senior. ‘Wish he may get it.’ 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 54/2 I've heard people say when I've cried ‘all a-growing’ on a fine-ish day, ‘Aye, now summer's a-coming.’ I wish you may get it, says I to myself; for I've studied the seasons. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. ix. 216 Don't you wish you may get it? 1929 Barron's 17 June 16/2 With pardonable cynicism the impartial reader will say, ‘Don't they wish they may get it.’ 1944 Yale Univ. Libr. Gaz. 19 17/2 The last words he uttered were spoken to an anxious creditor; to whom he said, ‘Don't you wish you may get it.’ 2003 BBC Summary of World Broadcasts (Nexis) 13 Oct. If this does not work, then as Moldovans say, I wish you may get it. (c) Originally U.S. Services' slang. come and get it: indicating that food or drink is ready. Also in extended use, esp. as a sexual invitation. ΚΠ 1913 Motor Age 13 June 20/1 ‘Come and get it.’ This is the polite way of saying: ‘We are now serving a meal in the dining car (mess truck). Will you kindly step up and satisfy your appetite?’ 1936 H. L. Ickes in Dedicated to Conservation (U.S. Department of the Interior) 12 We had not been altogether wise in putting all of our natural resources on the table and yelling in a voice that could be heard around the world, ‘Come and get it’. 1965 C. Himes Cotton comes to Harlem x. 101 ‘Come and get it, pansy,’ she taunted, lying on the bed with her legs open. 1976 M. Frayn Alphabet. Order i. 13 Come on, Lucy. Grub up. Come and get it. 1997 M. Groening et al. Simpsons: Compl. Guide 106/3 I want to have a baby before it's too late. You're looking at a free lunch, boys. Come and get it. (d) humorous. get it?: ‘do you understand?’, ‘do you see the joke?’ (used parenthetically as a tag to a joke, pun, or allusion, esp. one the speaker or writer regards as bad, obvious, or laboured). Cf. geddit int. ΚΠ 1926 New Yorker 11 Dec. 46/2 (caption) The verse will be, ‘Tidings of Comfort and Joy’, and—ah—suppose we tie up the thought of the suspender buttons with that? Get it? 1937 R. Westerby Wide Boys never Work (1938) 161 ‘And you—Mick—you're through! Get it?’ 1940 S. J. Perelman in New Yorker 24 Aug. 14/3 A high-spirited travesty on How to Read a Book, by Mortimer J. Adler. It is called How to Read Two Books, by Erasmus J. Addlepate (get it?). 1985 ‘J. Gash’ Pearlhanger (1986) vii. 61 Similor's lightweight, love... Cheap old alloy. French bloke called Renty invented it: similar to or, gold. Get it? 2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xlvi. 732 ‘By the way, I personally object to the word testimony regarding a woman's sworn statements, simply because’—she crudely grabbed her crotch—‘the etymology of the word is testes. Get it?’ < as lemmas |
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