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单词 to get on to
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to get on to ——
to get on to ——
1. intransitive. To shift the subject of discussion to, to move in the course of conversation to.
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1814 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 23 Apr. 513 I wish to get on to a very important topic.
1837 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 648/1 Let's now get on to what Skelton calls his ‘Derelictions’.
1881 J. Fiske Let. 31 Jan. (1940) 454 From carwheel we got on to contraction and expansion, molecular motion, vortex-atoms, the nebular hypothesis, matter and spirit, and so on.
1923 Humorist 29 Sept. 228/3 He got on to what was probably his favourite theme.
1944 D. Cooper Diary 9 June (2005) 310 When I got on to the question of the francs.
2003 G. Joseph Big Smoke xxvi. 237 They hadn't got on to football talk yet, but Martine knew her stuff.
2. intransitive. To pick up the trail or scent of (an animal). Also: to pick up and follow (the trail of an animal). Now rare.
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1837 New Sporting Mag. Feb. 111 Found in High-wood the fastest thing of the season... Got on to him at Beeches, and running hard through it, and on by Oxberry and Meesden, ran into him at Hormead.
1842 Sporting Rev. Mar. 203 They..got on to a good drag, and hunted him slowly, but beautifully, up to Madhams, where they got up to him.
1894 43rd & 52nd Light Infantry Chron. III. 238 After many attempts, this heat was started on a good boar. Kennard got on to him at once and ran him for some time, when Fanshawe got on to him.
1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox (1920) 143 The fox heard hounds get on to his line, And again the terror went down his spine.
1951 Irish Times 15 Feb. 2/7 He got on to another hare, which took him into the country.
1981 Winnipeg Free Press 13 Nov. 55/1 Whenever she got on to the scent of a sharptail, a rabbit would dash across her path to create problems.
1996 D. G. Schueler Handmade Wilderness xxv. 223 In the background, the stir of hounds or bird dogs snuffling in the thickets, wanting to get on to the next quarry.
3. intransitive. To get in touch or communication with (someone).
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society > communication > [verb (transitive)] > communicate with
to get to ——1853
to get on to ——1879
reach1886
to get through1917
contact1927
1879 C. M. Greene & S. Thompson Sharps & Flats i. 26 Clever, duecid [sic] clever and just as strong as he is clever. Bully of the board... Get on to him. Get—get on to him.
1895 W. B. Yeats Let. 3 Mar. (1954) ii. 252 I am beginning to think of getting on at Roscommon to Douglas Hyde. I shall go from that to Dublin.
1939 J. Cannan They rang up Police 72 Very well. Get on to him, darling, will you? And then I'll speak myself—that would be more courteous.
1955 Times 30 June 9/5 Then later I read the body was to be exhumed. This thing got on my nerves, so I got on to the police.
1978 J. Sherwood Limericks of Lachasse xi. 133 Get on to that plant hire place..and get them to have an excavator up here..to dig up the car park.
2007 J. Armstrong et al. Thick of It: Scripts Special 2. 318 You, I want you to get on to the press, I want you to tell them I am..all over it.
4. intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To grasp the meaning, truth or significance of; to understand; to detect or discover.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > understand [phrase]
to know what's whatc1422
to know where to find a person1565
to see the light1812
to be awake to1813
to know a move or two1819
to get on to ——1880
to get the strength of1890
to be (or get) wise to1896
to get the picture1900
the penny dropped1939
to pick up1944
to get the message1959
to take on board1979
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > understand [verb (transitive)] > reach understanding of > words or meaning
takec1175
understanda1225
intenda1400
conceive?1526
accept1587
construe1622
to catch a person's drift1821
comprehend1860
to get on to ——1880
read1956
1880 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 2 June 6/3 The visitors taking kindly to Ward's curves, Dunlap and McCormick especially getting on to him in fine style.
1893 S. Crane Maggie xv. 130 Do yehs want people teh get onto me?
1904 N.Y. Sun 7 Aug. 28 Wise people are getting on to the fact that Eastwood is no ordinary real estate development.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves ix. 97 I knew there wasn't a chance of my being able to work this stage wheeze in London without somebody getting on to it and tipping off the guv'nor.
1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement vi. 277 That was a bit of smart thinking on your part... There aren't many men about here who could have got on to it like that.
1940 E. Percy in Best One-act Plays 1940 70 It's very fortunate I got on to it in time. I'm sure I've saved Ann a great deal of unhappiness.
1998 A. Hollinghurst Spell (1999) xi. 147 He waited there for a moment or two, wondering impatiently how Martin had got on to him, what he hadn't noticed.
5. intransitive. colloquial. To scold or reprimand; to criticize.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)]
reprehendc1400
murmur1424
discommenda1500
belack1531
to find fault (with, at)c1540
scan?c1550
fault1563
pinch1567
to lift or move a lip1579
raign1581
reflect1605
criminate1645
criticize1652
nick1668
critic1697
chop1712
stricture1851
to get on to ——1895
chip1898
rap1899
nitpick1956
1895 Nottingham Daily Express 27 Aug. 8/1 If I go home I shall do it. My mother is always getting on to me.
1901 Testimony Select Comm. Hazing Mil. Acad. (U.S. House of Representatives 56th Congress, 2nd Sess.) 988 Mr. Burnett was getting onto Mr. Albert about something. I don't know whether it was about not bracing properly or a slovenly way in which he did the manual.
1962 ‘A. Burgess’ Wanting Seed iii. ix. 145 You stop getting on to me, boy. You keep them dirty words to yourself.
1994 C. Dexter Daughters of Cain xxx. 126 I don't get on to you, for what you like.
2009 R. Bautista in D. E. Davis et al. Voices from Nueva Frontera iii. 53 My dad..didn't like getting on to me for stuff I did bad.
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